The king he wrytes a luving letter, With his ain hand sae tenderly, And he hath sent it to Johnie Armstrang, To cum and speik with him speedily.
And there it is, a silken sarke, Your ain hand sewd the sleive; Ye maun gae speik to Gill Morice; Speir nae bauld barons leave.
The other said, "My Lord, I understand not such dark maner of speaking: yf I shall geve you any ansuer, ye maun speik moir plane.
For albeit that to this hour it hath nott chaunsed me to speik with your Lordship face to face, yit have I borne a good mynd to your house; and have bene sorry at my heart of the trubles that I have heard you to be involved in.
Efter deliberatioun it was thocht expedient that they sould speik hir, bot nocht altogidder, leist that sum pairt of the Guysianis practise had lurkit under the cullour of [sik] freindscheip.
And now, Madam, to speik planelie, Papistis and conjureit ennemeis to Jesus Christ, haif your Graceis eare patent at all tymeis.
I am in the place," said the uther, "quhair I am demandit of conscience to speik the treuth; and thairfoir I speik.
The uthers speik of Christiane subjectis unto tyrantis and infidellis, so dispersed that thai haif no uther force but onlie to sobbe to God for delyverance.
And in case sum thingis war hid frome the one and frome the uthir, libertie was gevin to the thrid to speik his judgement for edificatioun of the Churche.
And there it is, a silken sarke, Your ain hand sewd the sleive; Ye maun gae speik to Gill Morice, Speir nae bauld baron's leave.
Gae bring a robe of your cliding, That hings upon the pin, And I'll gae to the gude grene-wode, And speik wi your lemman.
Here is a pair o gluves to her, Thay'r o the silver gray; And tell her to cum to the merrie green-wud, And speik to Bob Norice.
Gae tak to hir this pair o gluvis, They're o the siller-gray, And tell her to cum to the merrie grein-wud An speik to Bob Norice.
I speik to the into sport; spell me this thyng, 25 Quhat lykis ledis in land?
Quod sho, 'Fair child, ga to my father deir, 365 And pray him cum to speik with me anon.
Beir in your mynd this short conclusioun Of fair Cresseid, as I have said befoir; 615 Sen sho is deid, I speik of hir no moir.
Yf I shall say, our synnes and formar unthankfulness to God, I speik the treuth.
Quhair sche complenis of our Prechearis, affirmyng that irreverentlie thay speik of Princeis in generall, and of hir in particular, induceing the pepill thairby to defectioun frome thair dewatie, &c.
Then answered him a cheild,[415] saying, "The Devill cane not speik such wordis as yonder man doith speik.
Farder we have never hard any of oure Prechearis speik of the Quene Regent, nether publictlie nor privatlie.
And albeit, that this appear strange at the first hearing, yitt yf everie man shall examyn him self, and speik as that his conscience dites unto him, I dowbt not bot he shall subscrive my sentence.
On this maner thay speikof Princeis in generall, and of youre Grace in particular.
Bot Princeis must be pardonit to speikquhat thay pleise.
And there it is, a silken sarke, Your ain hand sewd the sleive; Ze maun gae speik to Gill Morice: Speir nae bauld barons leave.
The King he wrytes a luving letter, 5 With his ain hand sae tenderly, And he hath sent it to Johny Armstrang, To cum and speik with him speidily.
But gin ye speik like this, Miss Letty winna lat me come near ye, no to say her.
That's as muckle as to say, accordin' to Cocker, that I'm no to speik a word against him.
What's the maitter wi' ye, 'at ye winna speik till a body?
Only mind ye do as I tell ye, and dinna speik a word.
As touching “Yes,” if ye suld speik so plane, I might reprove you to haif said so far.
I speik for na despyt trewlie, (My-self am nocht of faultis frie), Bot that ye sould nocht perseveir Into sic folische vanitie For na newfangilnes of geir.
He is angrie quhen I speik of Walcar, and sayis, that he sall pluk the eiris out of his heid, and that he leis {lies}.
He sayis this far, yat his faultis wer publeist; bot yair is that committis faultis, that belevis thay will never be spokin of; and zit thay will speik of greit and small.
Never ane of that towne came to speik to me, quhilk causis me think that thay ar his; and nevertheless he speikis gude, at the leist his sone.
He sayis this far, yat his faultis wer publeist: bot yair is that committis faultis, that belevis thay will never be spokin of; and zit thay will speik of greit and small.
He desyrit that he wald cum and speik with him: He refusit it.
He is angrie quhen I speik of Walcar, and sayis, that he sal pluk the eiris out of his heid and that he leis.
Never ane of that towne came to speik to me, quhilk causis me think that thay ar his; and neuertheles he speikis gude, at the leist his sone.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "speik" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
