Ful wel sche sang the servise devyne, Entuned in hire nose ful semyly; And Frensch sche spak ful faire and fetysly, Aftur the scole of Stratford atte Bowe, For Frensch of Parys was to hire unknowe.
Maistresse, for the servise that to my pore powyr I aught my maister youre husbonde I am the werse by xxli.
I supply sinne; perhaps the exact word is erre, as suggested by Urry; F.
For hert fulfilled of gentilnesse Can yvel demene his distresse.
But o thing lyked me right wele; I was so nygh, I mighte fele Of the botoun the swote odour, 1845 And also see the fresshe colour; And that right gretly lyked me, That I so neer it mighte see.
But I had not read more than four lines of it before I at once recognised the well-known melodious flow which Chaucer's imitators (except sometimes Hoccleve) so seldom succeed in reproducing.
This lady brought in hir right hond 3705 Of brenning fyr a blasing brond; Wherof the flawme and hote fyr Hath many a lady in desyr Of love brought, and sore het, And in hir servise hir hertes set.
I flater noght, that may wite every wight; For this day in hirservise shal I dye; But grace be, I see hir never with ye.
But ther-ageyns, thee to comforte, And with thy servise to desporte, Thou mayst ful glad and Ioyful be 2015 So good a maister to have as me, And lord of so high renoun.
I was wroght, And for certeyn effectes hider broght 165 By him that lordeth ech intelligence, I yaf my trewe servise and my thoght, For evermore--how dere I have hit boght!
What wonder is then, thogh that I besette My servise on suche oon, that may me knette To wele or wo, sith hit lyth in hir might?
Loke ye my servise take at gree, 2105 By thilke feith ye owe to me.
So wot I noght of what servise 3300 That Slep to mannes ese doth.
And riht in such a maner wise Sche bad thei scholde hire don servise, So that Achilles underfongeth As to a yong ladi belongeth 3000 Honour, servise and reverence.
Bot he, that wiste nothing why 2970 He scholde do so gretservise After the world in such a wise, Withstod the wrong of that demande; For noght the Pope mai comande The king wol noght the Pope obeie.
Robert Fitzraf, for hese good, trewe and long servise to me doon and contynwyd, and alsoo be reson of my consanguynite and kynred.
I might have the morteisying withowte ony grete fyne, in recompence of my longe servise contynued and doon un to the Kyng, and to his noble fader, whom God assoile, and nevere yette guerdoonned or rewarded.
March 24th, Alexander Simon the Ninivite came to me, and promised me hisservise into Persia.
They had scaped from the Spanish servise in Flanders with Syr William Stanley.
Ce saches tu certainement Se tu li matinet bien main Ne rapeles mon chapelain A son servise et a s'enor, L'ame de toi a desenor Ains trente jors departira Et es dolors d'infer ira.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "servise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
