Scho was angrye and sorye for a seassone, but the Devill, the Messe, and wyttches have als great credyte of hir this day as thei had sevin yearis ago.
Your Majestie can not be ignorant, that in this Realme thair ar mony ennemeis; and, farther, that oure Soverane hes Counsalouris, quhois jugementis scho in all suche cases preferreth to ouris.
And quhen scho sall be maryit, I beseik zow give me ane, or ellis I will tak sic as sall content zow for their conditiounis; bot as for thair toungis or faithfulness towart zow I will not answer.
The Lady was wowd, but scho said nay With men that wald hir wed; Sa suld we wryth all sin away That in our breist is bred.
Thair dwelt a lyt besyde the King A foull Gyand of ane; Stollin he has the Lady ying, Away with hir is gane, And kest her in his dungering Quhair licht scho micht se nane; Hungir and cauld and grit thristing Scho fand into hir waine.
Sa weill the Lady luvit the Knycht That no man wald scho tak: Sa suld we do our God of micht That did all for us mak; Quhilk fullily to deid was dicht, For sinfull manis sak, Sa suld we do beth day and nycht, With prayaris to him mak.
Scho laid him on a dressing borde, And drest him like a swine, And laughing said, Gae nou and pley With your sweit play-feres nine.
Scho rowd hir mantil hir about, And sair sair gan she weip: And she ran into the Jewis castel, 35 Quhan they wer all asleip.
Scho cast him in a deip draw-well, Was fifty fadom deip.
Scho maid that vow for ane Abesie, Bot nocht for Christ Jesus our Lord.
And Thom promeist hir baith geir, horsis, and ky, and uther graith, gif scho wald denye hir Christindome, and the faith sche tuke at the funt stane?
In the description of a Scottish woman of the middle of the sixteenth century, attributed to Dunbar, we find:-- On ilkune fyngar scho weirit ringis tuo Scho was als proud an ony papingo.
Then come ther in a litill brid into his arme fleȝe, And ther hurkils and hydis as sche were hande tame, Fast scho flekirs about his fete, and fleȝtirs aboute.
Scho gaffe skirmande skrikes at all the skowis range.
Thow affermis that the quene is verray plesand, and wilbe auld and young quhen scho pleissis; scho mackis any kyng quhom scho pleisis, and lyis with any scho lykis'.
And that scho saw nocht the Quene thir seuin ʒeir.
More lykker-wys on to lyk, Wat3 þat scho had on lode.
Anothire es [th]at when scho flyes scho takes erthe in hyr fette, [th]at scho be noghte lyghtly ouerheghede in the ayere of wynde.
Bot fortowne thoucht scho fald fekilly Will noucht at anis myscheffis fall; Thare-fore scho set thare hartis all, To werray Fraunce richit to be, That Scottis live in grettar lé.
For cryeng of the men Forther wold not Tyb then, Tyl scho had hur brode hen 80 Set in hur Lap.
Hir schone suld be of sickernes, In syne thatscho nocht slyd; Hir hoiss of honestie, I ges, I suld for hir provyd.
Wald scho put on this Garmond gay, I durst sweir by my seill, That scho woir nevir grene nor gray That set hir half so weill.
Bot for Francois hattyn wes he, That swa clam up in prevate, Scho wrat that as in prophesy: 752 And it fell eftirward suthly Richt as scho said; for tane it was, And Francois led thame up that place.
And feill sis confort scho the Kyng Bath with silver and with met, As scho in-to the land mycht get.
Bot quhethir scho that tald the King How his purpos suld tak ending, Wenit, or wist it witterly; It fell eftir all halely 772 As scho said: for syne king wes he, And of full mekill renomme.
Thai broucht hir quhill scho com weill neir: Than mycht men se on seir maner Sum men defend, and sum assale Full besaly with gret travale.
And in a nycht syne and a day, Scho set hym in so hard assay, That he, with sevintene, in a bat, 645 Wes fayne for to hald hame his gat!
The Erll and the Lord Dowglas, Hir in dante resavit has, As it wes worthy, sekyrly; 105 For scho wes syne the best lady And the farest, that men mycht se.
The ladie scho wald nocht dispute; (Nocht woman is schothat laikis ane tung.
Scho flang her harp on that auld tree, (The wynd pruvis aye ane harpir gude.
About his breist scho plet her handis; (Luvand be maydens quhan thai lyke.
Wee had are meir, that caryit salt and coill, And everie ilk yeirscho brocht us hame ane foill.
Than ben thair come ane gredy sow, I trow he cund hir littil thank; For in scho schot hir mekle mow, 75 And ay scho winkit and scho drank.
Than in the mornyng up scho gatt, And on hir hairt laid hir disjune; Scho put als mekle in hir lap, As micht haif ser[v]d them baith at nune.
Than he beur kendling to the kill, But schostart all up in ane low; 90 Quhat evir he hard, quhat evir he saw, That day he had na will to mow.
Off all fairheid scho bur the flour, And eik hir faderis air; 10 Off lusty laitis and he honour; Meik, bot and debonair.
Scho draif the day unto the night, Scho lousit the pluch, and syne come hame; 110 Scho fand all wrang that sould bene richt, I trow the man thought richt grit schame.
Thair dwelt a lyt besyde the king A fowll gyane of ane; Stollin he hes the lady ying, Away with hir is gane; 20 And kest hir in his dungering, Quhair licht scho micht se nane; Hungir and cauld and grit thristing Scho fand in to hir wame.
The lady was wowd, but scho said nay, 105 With men that wald hir wed; Sa suld we wryth all syn away, That in our breistis bred.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scho" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
