Riche men [th]air hend sal wryng, and wicked werkes sal by 65 In flawme of fyre, bath knyght and keyng, with sorow schamfully.
Suffre thou neuer Thi sayntys to se The sorow of thaym that won in wo, Ay full of fylth, and may not fle, which is more intelligible and nearer Psalm xvi.
Na wonder gyf I syghand be, and sithen in sorow be sette: 85 Iesu was nayled apon [th]e tre, and al blody forbette.
Then briefly he concluded how he found Rhomeo dead within the graue, who as it is most likely did impoyson himselfe, or was otherwise smothered or suffocated with sorow by findinge Iulietta in that state, thinking shee had bene dead.
O thou my blissyt spows, decessit or now, Full happy of that ded in faith was thou, That to thys sorow not preservyt was!
Quhat sorow dreys queyn Dydo all the nycht, And how Mercur bad Ene tak the flycht.
I purpose not to tel you the sorow which Amadour felt by hearing those words, because it is impossible not only to write them, but also to thincke them, except it be of such as haue had experience of the like.
But shal I thus [to] yow my deeth for-give, That causeles doth me this sorow drye?
Now wol I speke of Mars, furious and wood; For sorow he wolde have seen his herte blood; Sith that he mighte hir don no companye, 125 He ne roghte not a myte for to dye.
But nowe I cannot reuiue the memorie of your father Amurate, but to my great sorow and griefe, who by the space of XL.
But the duke of Glocesters sonne, through mischance perished, as he was on the seas to come ouer, for whose losse his mother tooke such greefe, that shortlie after through immoderate sorow she likewise passed out of this transitorie life.
Schyr Jhon the Graym, and mony worthi wicht, Wepyt in wo for sorow off that sycht.
Quhen king Eduuard his herroldis thus has seyne, In propyr ire he wox ner wode for teyne, That he nocht wyst on quhat wiss him to wreke; For sorow almaist a word he mycht nocht spek.
At Forest kyrk a metyng ordand he; Thai chesd Wallace Scottis wardand to be, Traistand he suld thair paynfull sorow cess.
Now off his men in Glaskow still at lay, Quhat sorow raiss, quhen thai him myst away?
Speaking of Crystal of Seton, he says:-- It wes gret sorow sekyrly, That so worthy persoune as he Suld on sic maner hangyt be.
Scho said him; ‘Ya, and thinkis yet to se ‘Sorow on thaim, throw help off Goddis grace.
His men hym folowit sodanly at anys, Haisty sorow was rassyt in thai wanys; With scherand suerdis scharply about thaim dang; Feyll on the flur was fellyt thaim amang.
His newois hede, quhen he saw it was brocht, Sa gret sorow sadly apon him socht, With gret wness apon his feit he stud, Wepand for wo for his der tendyr blud.
Yf ye shall take this also awaye fro me and some mysfortune happen apon him/ then shall ye brynge my gray heed with sorow vnto the grave.
In sorow shalt thou eate therof all dayes of thy lyfe/ And it shall beare thornes ad thystels vnto the.
So shall we thy serva[~u]tes brynge the gray hedde of thy servaunt oure father with sorow vnto the grave.
And vnto the woman he sayd: I will suerly encrease thy sorow ad make the oft with child/ and with payne shalt thou be deleverd: And thy lustes shall pertayne vnto thy husbond and he shall rule the.
The Kyngis hert have thai fundyn thar, And that haym with thame have thai tane, And ar toward thair innys gane With greting and with evill cher; Thair sorow angyr wes to her.
And fra his folk wist he wes ded, The sorow rais fra sted to sted.
It wes gret sorow sekyrly, That so worthy persoune as he Suld on sic maner hangyt be.
Sparham owt to hym; and in gode feyth he hath had so moche sorow and hevynesse that he wyst nowth qhat he myth don.
Wherfore, cosyn, thynk on this mateer, for sorow oftyn tyme causeth women to be set hem otherwyse than thei schuld do, and if sche where in that case, I wot weel ze wold be sory.
Thilke goodnesse and fairnesse be proper to tho thinges hem-selfe; than, if they be nat thyne, sorow nat whan they wende, ne glad thee nat in pompe and in pride whan thou hem hast.
Now god,' quod I, 'that dyed on the crois Yeve sorow on thee, and on thy lewde vois!
In a panter I am caute, My fot his pennyd, I may not owt; In sorow and car he his put, That have, etc.
With a qwene yif that thou run, Anon it is told into the town; Sorow he hath both up and down, That have, etc.
He was so sore displeased because the Niniuites perished not/ that he was wery of hys lyfe and wished after the deeth for very sorow & payne/ that he had loost the glorie of his prophesienge/ in that his prophesie come not to passe.
But thou erthe forsake the erthe, Or that thou hennys goo, Vnder erthe for lust of erthe Thou schalt haue sorow and woo.
Thanne if erthe comyth to erthe Makyng sorow and mone, Thanne saith erthe to the erthe, 'Thou were a felow, but now art thou none'.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sorow" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
