And now ben thise as sovereyns With seintes in hevene, {199} Tho that wroughte wikkedlokest In world tho thei were.
Ye may se by my signes, That sitten on myn hatte, That I have walked ful wide In weet and in drye, And sought goode seintes For my soules helthe.
Seint Johan and othere seintes Were seyen in poore clothyng, And as povere pilgrymes Preyed mennes goodes.
Ac though that theef hadde hevene, He hadde noon heigh blisse, As seint Johan and othere seintes That deserved hadde bettre.
Pilgrymes and palmeres Plighten hem togidere, For to seken seint Jame, And seintes at Rome.
Thanne hent Hope an horn Of Deus, tu conversus vivificabis, And blew it with Beati quorum Remissae sunt iniquitates, That alle seintes in hevene Songen at ones.
Ac it is but selde y-seien, As by holy seintes bokes, 9230 That God rewarded double reste To any riche wye.
Seint Urban, with his deknes, prively The body fette, and buried it by nighte Among his othere seintes honestly.
But-if it be of holy seintes lyves, 690 Ne of noon other womman never the mo.
Valerian is to the place y-gon, And right as him was taught by his lerninge, He fond this holy olde Urban anon 185 Among the seintes buriels lotinge.
As Chaucer is pleased to call his poem by the name of 'seintes legende of Cupyde' in the Introd.
He there expressly refers to his Legend of Good Women, which he is pleased to call 'the Seintes Legende of Cupide,' i.
Who-so that wol his large volume seke Cleped the Seintes Legende of Cupyde.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seintes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
