Dog, kepe well my shepe fro the corn, And warn well “Warroke” when I blow my horn!
For if a priest be foul, on whom we trust, No wonder is a lewed man to rust; Well ought a preest ensample for to give, By his clenenesse how his shepe shulde live.
The pie will discharge thee, for pulling the reste: the lighter the shepe is, then fedeth it beste.
Who both by his calues, and his lambes will be knowne: may well kill a neate, and a shepe of his owne.
God forbyd elles, yea & many tymes a symple shepe lyeth hyd in a wolfes skynne, and yf a man maye credite and beleue the fables of Aesope, an asse maye lye secretely unknowen by cause he is in a lyons skynne.
Yf ye take hym to were a shepe vpon his heed, that weareth a cappe of woll, howe greuously than art thou lodyn, or what an excedynge heuy burdê bearest thou then I praye the whiche bearest a hoole shepe and an ostryche to vpon thy heed?
Naye I knowe hym whiche bereth a shepe vpon his heed, and a sore in his brest, to whome I wold wysshe with al my hart that he had as whyte and as fauorable frendes as he hathe blacke eyes.
Well ought a priest example for to give By his clenenesse how his shepe shulde live.
In May, the shepe folde is to be set out''; but Fitzherbert does not much approve of folding, and points out its disadvantages in a very judicious manner.
When I kept Mr. Letymer's shype I bout thys boke when the Testament was obberagatyd that shepe herdys myght not red hit.
Of the penytent that sayd the shepe of God haue mercy vpon me.
Therfore I muste nedes say nowe: the shepe of God haue mercy vpon me.
But now it is a twelfemonthe since, and it is a shepe by this tyme.
The tayler, herynge the backe dore openynge, wente to the other syde of the myll, and there saw the mylner ronnyng away, and stode ther a lytyll whyle musyng wyth the shepeon his necke.
Of the penytent that sayd the shepe of God have mercy upon me.
For I haue sayd thus to daye in the mornynge and so dayly: the shepe of God haue mercy vpon me.
I wyll that myne executoures shall gyue to my doughters at the tyme of theyr maryage euery of theym an hundred shepe / suche as they wyll.
For the executours say they are bounde to delyuer to euery of them an hundred shepe / suche as they that be the executours will.
Fitzherbert advises the farmer who has a number of strips lying side by side and who hath no dung nor shepe to compost nor dung his land withall.
I haue bene wyth the/ thy shepe and thy gootes haue not bene baren/ and the rammes of thi flocke haue I not eat[~e].
And he sayde: lyfte vp thyne eyes ad see/ how all the rames that leape vpon the shepe are straked/ spotted and partie: for I haue sene all that Laban doth vnto y^e.
And Abraham sayde: my sonne/ God wyll prouyde him a shepefor sacrifyce.
And Abell/ he brought also of the fyrstlynges of hys shepe and of the fatt of them.
They sayde moreouer vnto Pharao: for to sogeorne in the lande are we come/ for thy seruauntes haue no pasture for their shepe so sore is the fameshment in the lande of Canaan.
And Ioseph w[~e]t and tolde Pharao and sayde: my father and my brethern their shepe and their beastes and all that they haue/ are come out of the lade of Canaan and are in the lande of Gosan.
Than toke Abimelech shepe and oxen/ menservauntes and wemenseruauntes and gaue them vnto Abraham/ and delyvered him Sara his wyfe agayne.
When he sayde the spotted shalbe thy wages/ tha all the shepebare spotted.
His brethren went to kepe their fathers shepe in Sichem/ and Israell sayde vnto Ioseph: do not thy brethern kepe in Sichem?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shepe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
