Of Rosamonde that was so faire, Had cause her sorrowes to declare, Then let Jane Shore with sorrowe sing, That was beloved of a king.
His beastes he kept upon the hyll, And he sate in the dale; And thus with sighes and sorrowes shril, He gan to tell his tale.
That still we thinke our hearts would breake with sorrowesso opprest.
But what should I recite, or couet to declare My sorrowes past, or eke t'endite of my hard Ginnie fare?
You heard before, that home I got from Ginnie at the last, But by and by, I quite forgot the sorrowes I had past.
Oh had my teares such force to pierce her mind, These sorrowes I should loose, and new ioyes find.
Whereat, the very stone would seeme to weepe, whose wrinkled face wold be besmeard with tears O man what ere thou be, thy sorrowes keepe vnto thy selfe, quoth hee; ile heare no cares.
Farewell: and for my hart disdained y my tongue Should so prophane the word, that taught me craft To counterfeit oppression of such greefe, That word seem'd buried in my sorrowes graue.
Oh no, the apprehension of the good Giues but the greater feeling to the worse: Fell sorrowes tooth, doth euer ranckle more Then when it bites, but lanceth not the sore Gau.
My sorrowes are their triumphes; so in kings courts, When officers are thrust out of their roomes, Others leape laughing in while they doe mourne.
XXXIX What worlds delight, or joy of living speach Can heart, so plung'd in sea of sorrowes deep, And heaped with so huge misfortunes, reach?
XL Ah Ladie deare, quoth then the gentle knight, Well may I weene your griefe is wondrous great; For wondrous great griefe groneth in my spright, Whiles thus I heare you of your sorrowes treat.
I hold your counsell for the best; Weele once conclude our sorrowes with a jest.
I pray thee keepe thy dainties; I am full Of bitter sorrowes as my hart can holde.
You have done well: Yon hand I see's a perfect Architect In sorrowes building.
And carelesly smiles at the sorrowes I prove; O willow, &c.
And after many wearie steps 145 In Padua they safely doe arrive at last: For very joy her heart it leapes; She thinkes not of her sorrowes past.
What worlds delight, or ioy of liuing speach 2 Can heart, so plung'd in sea of sorrowes deepe, And heaped with so huge misfortunes, reach?
Ah Ladie deare, quoth then the gentle knight, 2 Well may I weene, your griefe is wondrous great; For wondrous great griefe groneth in my spright, 4 Whiles thus I heare you of your sorrowes treat.
For they, how euer shamefull and vnkind, Yet did possesse their horrible intent: 8 Short end of sorrowes they thereby did find; So was their fortune good, though wicked were their mind.
Then wil I staine my milkwhite vaile with weeping, And as thine handmaide dye in sorrowes keeping.
Strait he dubb'd her husband knight; Then made him erle of Flanders, And chiefe of his commanders: Thus were their sorrowes put to flight.
Here my sorrowes were multeplyed againe in an unspeakable manner, because as all my former endeavours even so this project which I had taken for my last refuge was fruitllesse.
The sorrowes which we should lye under (if through your neglect) would much abate of y^e acceptablenes of your help afterwards.
Lamenting is altogether contrary to reioising, euery man saith so, and yet is it a peece of ioy to be able to lament with ease, and freely to poure forth a mans inward sorrowes and the greefs wherewith his minde is surcharged.
Power all your teares, I am your sorrowes Nurse, And I will pamper it with Lamentation Dor.
In that sad time, My manly eyes did scorne an humble teare: And what these sorrowes could not thence exhale, Thy Beauty hath, and made them blinde with weeping.
My Charity is outrage, Life my shame, And in that shame, still liue my sorrowes rage Buc.
For I count my selfe more than satisfied of all my sorrowes past, by the fauour alone of your presence.
Those gracious words Reuiue my drooping thoughts, And giue my tongue-ty'd sorrowesleaue to speake.
Or that some friend is dead and then a teare, A sigh or groane steales from me: for I feare Lest death with love hath strooke my heart, and all These sorrowes usher but its funerall.
For by examples I Must know that others sorrowes dye Soone as our selves, and none survive To keepe our memories alive.
So sorrowes heauinesse doth heauier grow: For debt that bankrout slip doth sorrow owe, Which now in some slight measure it will pay, If for his tender here I make some stay.
Because the Girle, should not suruiue her shame, And by her presence still renew his sorrowes Tit.
And what and if His sorrowes haue so ouerwhelm'd his wits, Shall we be thus afflicted in his wreakes, His fits, his frenzie, and his bitternesse?
Oh noble father, you lament in vaine, The Tribunes heare not, no man is by, And you recount your sorrowes to a stone Ti.
Therefore I tell my sorrowes bootles to the stones.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sorrowes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
