Promyse me to speke that the sone may shyne bryght, And I wyll be gone quyckly for all nyght.
Who wolde beleue that this marchaunt, whiche is both wyse and subtyle, wolde truste this ideot, that can speke neuer a redy worde, of xl peny worth of ware?
By this tale a man may perceyue, that somtyme peraduenture yonge Innocentes speke truely vnaduysed.
To whome this other sayde: I shall shewe the sone a remedye and a medecyne therfore, that is thus: go take an aspen lefe and laye it vnder her tonge this nyght, she beynge a slepe; and I warante the that she shall speke on the morowe.
By this tale men may lerne, that it is foly to study to speke eloquently before them, that be rude and vnlerned.
Whanne they harde hym thus speke by his voyce, [they] knewe him well, and opened the gate and lette hym come in.
Thys John Adroyns in the dyuyls aparell answeryd wyth a hye voyce and sayd: tell thy mayster I must nedys speke with hym or[13] I go.
By this ye may se, that they, that have but small lernyng, som tyme speketruely unaduysed.
The wynde sayde: yf ye lyst to speke wyth me, ye shall be sure to haue me among aspyn leuys or els in a womans tong.
It is nat ynough to haue rebukes redie, and to speke vyle wordes agaynst other: for he, that so shuld do, ought to be without any vyce.
I was before, whan she was domme; wherfore I praye you teche me a medycyne to modefye her, that she speke nat so moche.
And all the same three days he wold nat issue out of his chambre, nor speke to any man, though they were never so nere about hym.
I praye you therof,' quod the squyer, 'for I wolde nat it shulde be knowen, that I shulde speke thereof.
Thanne, who-so that ever is entecched and defouled with peyne, he ne douteth nat, that he is entecched and defouled with yvel.
Have now good night, I may no lenger wake; And bid for me, sin thou art now in blisse, That god me sende deeth or sone lisse.
Criseyde, which that felte hir thus y-take, As writen clerkes in hir bokes olde, Right as an aspes leef she gan to quake, 1200 Whan she him felte hir in his armes folde.
I assente me,' quod I; 'for alle thise thinges ben strongly bounden with right ferme resouns.
Thise riche men, may they fele no cold on hir limes on winter?
And glad was he if any wight wel ferde, That lover was, whan he it wiste or herde.
And that doth me to han so gret a wonder, That ye wol scornen any womman so.
Gret was the sorwe and pleynt of Troilus; But forth hir cours fortune ay gan to holde.
And sin he best to love is, and most meke, What nedeth feyned loves for to seke?
Ne she neither hereth ne rekketh of wrecchede wepinges; and she is so hard that she laugheth and scorneth the wepinges of hem, the whiche she hath maked wepe with hir free wille.
Speke and two other young officers, but accomplished the most difficult part of the enterprise alone.
Captain Speke was wounded in eleven places, and Burton himself had a javelin thrust through his jaws.
Of other thing it farth riht so Upon this erthe among ous here; And forto speke in this manere, 1290 Upon the hevene, as men mai finde, The sterres ben of sondri kinde And worchen manye sondri thinges To ous, that ben here underlinges.
So wofull yit was nevere lif 1450 As Tisbee was, whan sche him sih: Sche mihte noght o word on hih Speke oute, for hire herte schette, That of hir lif no pris sche sette, Bot ded swounende doun sche fell.
Of Pite fortospeke plein, Which is with mercy wel besein, Fulofte he wole himselve peine To kepe an other fro the peine: For Charite the moder is Of Pite, which nothing amis Can soffre, if he it mai amende.
Bot yit it falleth in my minde, Toward the men hou that ye spieke Of hem that wole no travail sieke In cause of love upon decerte: To speke in wordes so coverte, I not what travaill that ye mente.
So forto speke of myn arrai, Yit couthe I nevere be so gay Ne so wel make a songe of love, Wherof I myhte ben above And have encheson to be glad; Bot rathere I am ofte adrad For sorwe that sche seith me nay.
Skarsnesse and love acorden nevere, For every thing is wel the levere, Whan that a man hath boght it diere: And forto speke in this matiere, For sparinge of a litel cost Fulofte time a man hath lost The large cote for the hod.
The mother of the king of Uganda gave to Speke "a beautifully-worked pombA(C) sucking-pipe.
Speke must have encountered a survival of this idea when he observed in equatorial Africa, near the sources of the Nile, and among people whose features proclaimed their Abyssinian origin, the very same aversion.
In the picture of a native of Uzinza, Speke shows us a man wearing a cord from the right shoulder to the left hip.
Speke describes a young chief wearing on his forehead "antelope horns, stuffed with magic powder to keep off the evil eye.
His wyf, that coude of Cesar have no grace, To Egipte is fled, for drede and for distresse; But herkneth, ye that speke of kindenesse.
That shal I seyn, whan that I see my tyme; *I may not al at ones speke in ryme.
Me list no more to speke of him, parde; Thise false lovers, poison be hir bane!
But for this ende I speke this as now, To telle you of false Demophon.
What shulde I speke more queynte, 245 Or peyne me my wordes peynte, To speke of love?
Ther nas no lak, but that he was agast To love, and for to speke shamefast.
For seek was he, and almost at the deeth; Unnethe mighte he speke or drawe his breeth, And lyth in Rodopeya him for to reste.
But of his aventures in the see (30) Nis nat to purpos for to speke of here, For hit acordeth nat to my matere.
But let usspeke of Eneas, How he betrayed hir, allas!
To late is now tospeke of this matere; Prudence, allas!
And wondreth not, myn owene lady bright, Though that I speke of love to you thus blyve; For I have herd or this of many a wight, Hath loved thing he never saugh his lyve.
This is o word for al; this Troilus 1660 Was never ful, to speke of this matere, And for to preysen un-to Pandarus The bountee of his righte lady dere, And Pandarus to thanke and maken chere.
For touching the lettres falsly maked, by whiche lettres I am accused to han hoped the fredom of Rome, what aperteneth me to speke ther-of?
Speke measured one of the much-admired African wonders of obesity, who was unable to stand except on all fours.
The Queen of Uganda offeredSpeke the choice between two of her daughters as a wife.
He had his women come in, made them strip to the waist, and asked Speke what he thought of them.
It is very interesting to find that the results of the visit paid by Speke and Grant to Mtéza, King of Uganda, have already become well marked.
When Spekediscovered Victoria Nyanza in 1858, he at once concluded that therein lay the sources of the Nile.
Speke had only two Beluch soldiers with him, and the idea that they loaded themselves with infants, at once stamps the tale as fabulous.
For the sake of the little story of "a bear mother," Speke made a general assertion on a very small and exceptional foundation.
Mabruki Speke is left at Taborah with Sultan bin Ali.
Lohanga: passed the point where Speke turned, then breakfasted at the marketplace.
Speke at Kasengé islet inadvertently made a general statement thus: "The mothers of these savage people have infinitely less affection than many savage beasts of my acquaintance.
Bot if I speke with [gh]one lady bryghte, I hope myne herte will bryste in three; Now sall I go with all my myghte, Hir for to mete at Eldoune tree.
To speke is no faute, but an obseruacion or markyng, not leanyng vpõ cause, but vpon example.
The Rethoricianes put chaunce vnder tyme, because the ende of a thynge perteyneth to the time that foloweth: but of thys wyll we speke in the place called Euent.
Dubitatio, Dubitacion; when wee doute of two thynges, or of many, which we shuld inespecially speke of.
Bot it plesis me to speke sum thing of Colouris of Armes, and of thair descripciouns.
Would that the rule enforced at one of our older monasteries were applied: 'In the Chafynghowys al brethren schal speke latyn or els keep silence.
Not for thenne there was no knyght myghte speke one word a grete whyle.
And farther I pray you sende me word in wryting who hathe resorted unto you syns my departuer from you to speke with me.
These cursed olde men have an yll custome Women for to blame, both all and some; For that they can not theyr myndes full fyll, Therfore they speke of them but all yll.
It is not eyght dayes sythe oure weddynge That we two togyther weere: By god, ye speketo soone of werkynge.
And to conclude shortly upon reason, To speke of wedlocke of fooles that be blente, There is no greter grefe nor feller poyson, Nor none so dredeful peryllous serpent, As is a wyfe double of her entent.
Gentilmen children beeth taught to speke Frensche from the tyme that they bith rokked in hir cradell; and uplondissche men will likne himself to gentylmen, and fondeth with greet besynesse for to speke Frensche.
Grant wrote A Walk across Africa, The Botany of the Speke and Grant Expedition, and Khartoum as I saw it in 1863.
He told how on his expedition to the sources of the White Nile he had met two tattered figures which proved to be Speke and Grant coming back from tracing that part of the river which flowed from the Victoria Nyanza.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "speke" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
