Bitter was his lamentation, and very sooth his penitence, when he saw the verity of the matter.
And in verysooth it were a dread thing if any amongst us should be entrapped into intelligence with the King's enemies, or such treasonable matter; and of this are wise men ever afeared, when their wives or daughters learn to write.
But mine husband bade me write this chronicle, though, sooth to say, I had no list thereto.
But what I meant, Jack, was such as my Lord of Lancaster and my Lord of Kent, and my Lord of Hereford--why did never such as these tell the King sooth touching the Mortimer?
It is this Passion alone, when misapplyed, that lays us so open to Flatterers; and he who can agreeably condescend to sooth our Humour or Temper, finds always an open Avenue to our Soul; especially if the Flatterer happen to be our Superior.
It is very natural for such who are treated ill and upbraided falsely, to find out an intimate Friend that will hear their Complaints, condole their Sufferings, and endeavour to sooth and asswage their secret Resentments.
But give me leave to make this Remark: That while you write so Pathetically on Contentment, and a retired Life, you sooth the Passion of Melancholy, and depress the Mind from Actions truly Glorious.
A covetous Man will call himself poor, that you may sooth his Vanity by contradicting him.
Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion, not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blow up in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
They soften Insolence, sooth Affliction, and subdue the Mind to the Dispensations of Providence.
If I were sure 'twere sooth thou'st sung, That truth were on thy silvery tongue; These pleasures must my passion move To live with thee and be thy love.
In sooth they guarded well their honor, as men still do.
In sooth I crave not the honor, O bounteous princess, that ye should bear my shield and other arms to the lodgings; ye be a queen.
Knight Ortwin of Metz then spake: "His great prowess shall not in sooth avail him aught.
The warriors turned them hence; in sooth they feared their death at the fiddler's hands, and surely they had need of this.
In sooth the daylight never shone on better shield.
By him standeth Hagen; in sooth the guests be guarded well.
When they heard this word, insooth it pleased them not.
And thou wilt not turn back," spake the king, "then am I in sooth glad of thy will and will help thee bring it to pass, as best I may.
Mightily the hero gan weep; in sooth he had good cause.
Once as the hero rode alone without all aid, he found before a mountain, as I have in sooth been told, by Nibelung's hoard full many a daring man.
She wore the cord of silk of Nineveh, set with precious stones; in sooth 'twas fair enow.
Then the old man warded him; in sooth he was brave enow.
Twelve hundred warriors insooth did sit at his round table.
He greeted them in loving wise; in sooth he was most rich in virtues.
Now bring me my harness, for in sooth I will encounter me with Hagen.
My judgment has ever been that all men (for in sooth all of us are, so to speak, little less than nothing) may so lose their heads in controversy that they may actually fight against their own interests.
This in sooth came to pass later on, and the words it spake were threatening ones, but I cannot now recall what I may have heard on these occasions.
My own nature in sooth was never a mystery to myself.
I had no acquaintance with him, insooth I scarcely knew him by sight.
The only manifestation of adverse fortune left to trouble me was the conspiracy of the doctors against me, but there were already signs that this would disappear before long, and in sooth it came to an end after the lapse of another year.
Said Stephen: "Sooth to say, I went not all the way home; for it came into my mind that maybe the Baron might call for me again; and when it rains florins I am fain to have my hat under the spout.
And sooth to say it went against the grain with him that at the very moment of their parting she should crave something, like a very child, for a fairing.
Sooth it is," said Hardcastle; "but I say again, thou art a valiant lad.
To say sooth I have chosen them already, and told them how we fare, and they are all agog for it.
Herewith must Osberne be content perforce, and in sooth his heart was the lighter that he had told his trouble to so good a friend as was Sir Godrick.
So what must I do but try it again, and one day I went down into the cave and fell to bewailing me that I had nought to deck me with, neither of gold nor silver, as other maidens had, for in sooth I had seen them with such things.
For, sooth to say, the said forest is a shield and a refuge to me, and I had been overcome long ago save for its warding.
But to say sooth these knew their own opportunity and took it, as ye shall find hereafter.
Sooth to say, it was by no means north that these twain rode, but as near south as might be.
CLXXV Count Roland in sooth is a noble peer; Count Walter, a valorous cavalier; The archbishop, in battle proved and tried, Each struck as if knight there were none beside.
Four hundred in arms together drew, The bravest of the heathen crew; With serried power they on him press, And dire in sooth is the count's distress.
Thus hath he done the sooth to show, That Karl and his warriors all may know, That the gentle count a conqueror died.
Better by far on the field to die; For insooth I deem that our end is nigh.
Now I see of a sooth God hateth thee, and thy penance is without savour, for that thou hast done it without repentance, and without love or pity.
And so of a sooth he promised God that never thenceforth would he tourney save before the true judge, who knoweth all good knights and passeth sentence upon them according to their deeds.
Had the Saracens had you in their prison even so stripped and denuded had ye seemed; whence thou art come I know not, but of a sooth thou hast fallen among ill folk.
Fair one," he saith, "now know ye of a sooth that never did I desire anything so much, and straightway will I speak with my uncle.
But in these present days, which are evil, men grow slothful, wherefore now the gentle minstrels will venture little; for know ye of a sooth it is no light thing to tell a goodly tale.
Then Messire Guillaume rode away forthwith; and he made great joy in that his uncle had said that he should of a sooth have to wife her whom he so desired,--of no other joy is he fain.
Never in sooth would I leave thee; but ever would I serve thee and love thee; but I may endure no longer and I needs must suffer death, most sweet father, through God's mercy.
Wipe thine eyes and dry thy face for nought will tears avail thee; know of a sooth we must needs all die, all must pass by the same road; none can thwart death, and from death there is no return.
Quoth the churl: "Now in sooth may I look to learn wisdom!
Meseems the devils have had it in their care and have laid a spell upon it; but I tell you of a sooth that rather will I seek out all the waters of all the world than not bring it back again full to overflowing.
And in sooth shalt thou sore bewail her; in the day thou didst leave her side, So great was her love, and faithful, that for grief at thy loss she died.
Nay, perchance it yet may be That in this thing he doeth wisely, his hostess in sootham I, And he is my guest, the first speech should be mine assuredly!
On both sides the troops were countless; manifold was their battle-cry, And Scotch and Welsh might ye hearken, for in sooth here I tell no lie.
Courteous she stood before him, quoth Gawain, 'Thy lips so red In sooth were made for kissing, be kiss and greeting sped!
For in sooth his case is harder than theirs who as beggars stand 'Neath the window, and succour seeking, for bread shall stretch forth the hand.
And trumpeters rode behind it, for in sooth they must needs be there, And a drummer he smote his tambour, and swung it aloft in air.
And in sooth no lie I tell ye when I say that this plain so good Bare of tent-poles a greater number than the trees in Spessart's wood.
But leave we all other venture, and hearken awhile to me, For in soothnever fairer welcome shall it fall to your lot to see.
And in soothhad she once his wife been, then ne'er had Lunete braved 55 Her wrath, and had given such counsel, as she once to her lady gave.
Alluding to Johann Agricola, an opponent within the camp, he writes: “I might in good sooth expect my own followers to leave me in peace, having quite enough to do with the Papists.
At this point Cleg rose and gave an imitation of the walk and conversation of a gentleman of the long robe, as seen from the standpoint of the Sooth Back.
She was then and there appointed, with acclamation, a full member of the honourable (or dishonourable, according to the point of view) society of the Knuckle Dusters of the Sooth Back.
There's mair ill in the Sooth Back than can be pitten richt wi' a track.
It was certainly not wise to dally with the prize marksman of the Sooth Back, who in his good days could break any particular pane in a fifth story window that you liked to specify, nine times out of ten.
For there was no maidenly backwardness about the girls of the Sooth Back.
There's no a boy atween Henry Place an' the Sooth Back that wull daur to show the ill-favoured face o' him within your muckle yett.
Then it gained them the respect of others as well, for Miss Tennant was a much honoured person in the Sooth Back.
He was a popular boy in the Sooth Back, and Tam Luke warbled about him till the assembled Knuckle Dusters snivelled secretly, and looked hard down between their knees so as to pretend they were spitting on the floor.
But it soon became evident that something more than a night class was necessary, if any impression were to be made on the wild Arabs of the Sooth Back.
This was because they belonged to the Sooth Back, and did not know Big Smith.
But she did not know the manifold wiles of a trained athlete of the Sooth Back.
I'm juist Cleg Kelly frae the Sooth Back," said the apparition.
Samson Langpenny sat down to teach the Border Ruffians of the Sooth Back—Cleg Kelly's class.
Sooth say you," returned the friar, "and does not your husband lie with you?
And in sooth he might well have so imposed upon them, for in those days the luxuries of Egypt had scarce been introduced into Tuscany, though they have since been brought over in prodigious abundance, to the grave hurt of all Italy.
And in good sooth she was a winsome and lusty country lass, brown as a berry and buxom enough, and fitter than e'er another for his mill.
It will sooth me to feel, though a wilderness grows, This lone world all unpeopled for me; That, though drooping and withering, there still is one rose In this wilderness blossoms for thee.
Palmer or not," young Blount did say, "He parted at the peep of day; Good sooth it was in strange array.
That will I be in good sooth if only you can woo and win me.
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