Out then spak the Queen o’ Fairies, Out of a bush o’ broom: ‘Them that has gotten young Tam Lin Has gotten a stately groom.
And out then spak her second brother, ‘It’s our sister Marjorie!
And out then spakher youngest brother, ‘There’s a honey mark on her chin.
O think na ye my heart was sair, When my love dropt down andspak nae mair, There did she swoon wi’ meikle care, On fair Kirconnell Lee.
Out then spak her eldest brother, ‘O how shall we her ken?
The bride she drew a long bodkin, Frae out her gay head-gear, And strake fair Annet unto the heart, That word she nevir spak mair.
He spak to me or ever I kent he was there, and garred my hert gie sic a loup 'at it maist fell into my breeks.
For the grace that he spak aboot, that was less nor the nature an' the providence.
Up an spak our foremost man: 'I think our bonnie bride's pale an wan.
And he spak still mair furiously; 'Flee, or we'll kill ye, because your lady.
Then up andspak the bride's mother: 'And O an ill deid may ye die!
O she's gaen murning up and down, And she's gaen murnin to the sea, Then to her father she has gane in, Wha spak to her right angrily.
Out then spak her father dear, And he spak meik and mild: 'And ever, alas!
Out then spak her auld mither, In her bed whare she lay: 'If there is nae water in the house, Gae harl her thro the lin.
Out then spak the Queen o Fairies, Out of a bush o broom: 'Them that has gotten young Tam Lin Has gotten a stately groom.
Up and spak an eldern knicht, Sat at the king's richt kne: "Sir Patrick Spence is the best sailor That sails upon the se.
Ful wel she song the service divyne, Entuned in hir nose ful semely; And Frensh she spak ful faire and fetisly, After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe, For Frensh of Paris was to hir unknowe.
And thus the worthy Knycht spak first, sayand, Faire frende, quhat is the cause of [gh]oure cummyng here in this wildernes?
Also in this yere mennes, bestes, trees, and housynge were alle to smyte with violent lyghtnynge, and sodeynly peresshyd; and the devell in mannes lyknes spak to men goynge be the weye.
Something in her bosom wrings, For relief a sigh she brings; And O, her een, they spak sic things!
And I'm ower failed to tak a helpmate, though Wylie Mactrickit the writer was very pressing, and spak very civilly; but I 'm ower auld a cat to draw that strae before me.
Then out and spak the Laird's saft Wat, The greatest coward in the cumpanie; "Now halt, now halt!
Maister William also spak with a man that sey hem.
And this day in the mornyng I wente to Sen Lauerauns Chirche; and there I spak to hem and told hem ye merveylid that thei wold take any distresse or warne any of your tenaunts that thei shuld pay yow no mony.
Sothewerk, and veryly had purposyd to have entrid; and his consayll wer with us, and spak with Wurseter and me.
I funde hym rythe good qwan I spak with hym at Caster; and remembre the newe evydens.
The is the determined not of a noun, of quhilk we spak cap.
Tyme past befoer is of a thing befoer done and ended; as, at four hoores, or quhen you spak to me, I had written.
This consonant, evin quher in the original it hes the awne sound, we turn into the chirt we spak of, cap.
Out then spak a Lennox lad, And waly but he spoke bonnily!
What the wily lord does in verse fifth is the exact counterpart of the account of the eldern knight in Sir Patrick Spence: Up and spak an eldern knight, Sat at the king's right knee.
Out then spak the jealous king, And an angry man was he: 'O if he had been twice as fair, You might have excepted me.
Up and spak an eldern knight, Sat at the king's right knee: 'Sir Patrick Spence is the best sailor That sails upon the sea.
Compare this with the second verse of Sir Patrick Spence: O up and spakan eldern knight, Sat at the king's right knee, &c.
But then spak a wily lord, Unto the queen said he: 'O tell me wha's the fairest face Rides in the company?
Heard you Ned Oufield mak his noration, Yoh’l say in yohr conshunce he spak it reyt fairly, He said poor Haworth nivver yet hed fairashun, And spak of the thing that will flurish it rarely.
Sprude spakto þe sprete þe spare bawlyne, Spread quickly to the sprit the spar bowline (?
Up spakthe son on the nourices knee,[L81] "Gin I live to be a man revenged Ile be.
Out spak the brave Baronne owre the castell wa, "Are ye come to spulzie an plunder my ha?
They hadna filed a shackle of iron, A shackle of iron but barely thrie, When out and spak young Simon brave, "O dinna you see what I do see?
The first flight of arrows the Foresters shot, They wounded him on the knee; And out and spak the Seventh Forester, "The next will gar him die.
Syne up an' spak the angry king: "Haud on for Dumferline!
Never wronged his neighbours, never spak an unkind word, never had no maneness in him.
Spak his maind laike a man, he did, and right happy he were wi' her.
Out thenspak her father dear, And he spak meik and mild-- 70 "And ever, alas!
O think na ye my heart was sair, When my love dropt down and spak nae mair, There did she swoon wi' mickle care, On fair Kirconnell Lee.
Out then spak her father dear, And he spak meek and mild-- "And ever, alas!
Young Johnstone had a little small sword, Hung low down by his gair, And he stabbed it through the young Col'nel That word he ne'er spak mair.
The bride she drew a long bodkin Frae out her gay head-gear, And strake fair Annet unto the heart, That word spak never mair.
Up and spak an eldern knight, Sat at the kings right knee: "Sir Patrick Spence is the best sailor, That sails upon the sea.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spak" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
