F 975):--'For with a word ye may me sleen or save.
Wherfor, but ye the rather take cure To breke that perilous alliaunce, Ye sleen hem that ben in your obeisaunce.
For either mot I have yow in my cheyne, Or with the dethe ye mot departe us tweyne; 285 Ther ben non other mene weyes newe; For god so wisly on my soule rewe, As verily ye sleen me with the peyne; That may ye see unfeyned of myn hewe.
At the same time, the enormous length of the original may very well have deterred even the most persevering of the translators from ever arriving at the far end of it.
Words that, etymologically, should end in -y-e, rime together.
And the men that the serpent and 5 the lyoun and the tygre and the bere and the boor seken to sleen with hir teeth, yit thilke same men seken to sleen everich of hem other with swerd.
I have herd told of Busirides, that was wont to sleen his gestes that herberweden in his hous; and he was sleyn him-self of Ercules that was his gest.
For there is art y-now for to redresse That yet is mis, and sleen this hevinesse.
He leet brenne the citee of Rome, and made sleen the senatoures.
Or be recreaunt for his owene tene, Or sleen him-self, al be his lady fayr?
O dere herte eek, that I love so, Who shal that sorwe sleen that ye ben inne?
Shulde be therfor fallen in despeyr, Or be recreaunt for his owene tene, Or sleen him-self, al be his lady fayr?
I nam but a lewd compilatour of the labour of olde Astrologiens, and have hit translated in myn English only for thy doctrine; and with this swerd shal I 45 sleen envye.
And, so ye wil me now to wyve take, As ye han sworn, than wol I yive yow leve 1320 To sleen me with your swerd now sone at eve!
Who hath doon this, and who hath been so bold To sleen my leef?
Thou seyst, thy princes han thee yeven might 480 Bothe for tosleen and for to quiken a wight; Thou, that ne mayst but only lyf bireve, Thou hast non other power ne no leve!
Who yaf Iudith corage or hardinesse To sleen him, Olofernus, in his tente, 940 And to deliveren out of wrecchednesse The peple of god?
Whan he of wyn was replet at his feste, Right at his owene table he yaf his heste 490 To sleen the Baptist Iohn ful giltelees.
And goddes peple hadde he most in hate, Hem wolde he sleen in torment and in payne, Wening that god ne mighte his pryde abate.
And folk that otherweyes han seyd of me, I warne hem wel that I have doon this dede For no malice ne for no crueltee, But for tassaye in thee thy wommanhede, 1075 And nat to sleen my children, god forbede!
Ye sleen me with your eyen, Emelye; Ye been the cause wherfor that I dye.
Bodily manslaughtre is, whan thow sleest him with thy tonge in other manere; as whan thou comandest to sleen a man, or elles yevest him conseil to sleen a man.
But in that bath hir lyf she moste lete; For he, Almachius, with ful wikke entente To sleen hir in the bath his sonde sente.
I wol conclude, that it is bet for me To sleen my-self, than been defouled thus.
God woot, a man maysleen him-self with his owene knyf, and make him-selven dronken of his owene tonne.
Repenteth yow, for thilke god above, Er ye me sleen by-cause that I yow love.
Before theise ydoles, men sleen here children many tymes, and spryngen the blood upon the ydoles; and so thei maken here sacrifise.
And therfore thei that knowen the manere, and schulle fighten with hem, thei schoten to hem arwes and quarrelles with outen yren or steel; and so thei hurten hem and sleen hem.
To sleen himself he wayteth prively, he watches for an opportunity to slay himself unperceived.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sleen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
