To his presence he brocht in haist, And bad the Squyer cheis[378] him the best.
Than said this Squyer to the Knicht, “I grant ye ar baith greit and wicht.
Be that Talbart on hors wes mountit, And of our Squyer lytill countit.
The Squyer liftit his visair Ane lytill space to take the air.
Then said the Squyer courteouslie, “Brother, I thank yow hartfullie.
And then the Squyertuik his leve, Commendit weill with everie man.
The Squyer buir into his scheild Ane otter in ane silver feild.
The Capitane of the Inglis band Tuke the young Squyer be the hand, And led him to the pailyeoun[422], And gart him mak collatioun.
The Squyeranswerit hie on hicht, “That sall I do, be Marie bricht!
Than lyke ane weriour vailyeand[360] He enterit in the Scottis band: And quhen the Squyer Meldrum Hard tell this campioun wes cum, Richt haistelie he past him till, Demanding him quhat was his will.
The Squyer furth his rink[410] he ran, Commendit weill with everie man; And him dischargeit of his speir Honestlie lyke ane man of weir.
Englande rydynge on a lusty courser of whych horse the noyse of the trumpettes so prycked the corage, that the squyer could nat him retayne; so that agaynste his wyll he ranne vpon hys enemyes.
Mannys fourme is disfigured with euery degre As Knyght Squyer yeman Jentilman and knaue, For al in theyr goynge vngoodely them behaue The tyme hath ben, nat longe before our dayes Whan men with honest ray coude holde them self content.
His nearest approach to Chaucer is in The Testament of Squyer Meldrum, which recalls the sketch of the "young squire"; but the reminiscence is verbal rather than spiritual.
The Fyft chapitre contenis, How the Bacheler Squyer suld ressaue the noble Ordre, and the forme and manere tharof, and of the process of the making of Knychtis be ordre.
We find also in English manuscripts rubrics like the following: "Loo here begynnethe a Balade whiche that Lydegate wrote at the request of a squyer yt served in Love's court.
Item, a squyer for the bodye aught to charge a secret groome or page, to have the kepynge of the sayde bedde with a lyght unto the time the kynge be disposed to goo to yt.
Item, a squyer for the bodye or gentylman-ussher aught to sett the kynges sword at hys beddes heed.
The squyer thoughte to have returned, but he could nat; for his horse was stryken with speares, and beaten downe, and the squyer slayn; wherewith the Duke of Burgoyne was right sore displeased.
And so, the squyer toke the horsse, and had gret marveyle what was become of his mayster; for he had well sene him ryde to the barryers, and stryke therat with his glayve, and retourne agayne.
The squyer began to laugh, and sayd, "Surely he must know it, by some art of negromansye or otherwyse.
Lord Erle of Oxford, the ton by Robson ys man, a squyer of my Lordys.
To the assalt with Pyrrus come at hand Periphas, and Automedon his squyer Was wont to govarn Achilles cart in weir, And al the sensabill men of Scyrrya Bownys our the wallis and howsis hedis alswa, 20 And fyre blesis abuf the rufe garris fle.
By dymmynge of the day 512 Lysten, lordes, of them came wo, He and his squyerdeparted in two, Carefull men then were they.
Thus can a squyer doon a gentil dede, As well as can a knight, with-outen drede.
O Ianuarie, dronken in plesaunce Of mariage, see how thy Damian, Thyn owene squyer and thy borne man, 1790 Entendeth for to do thee vileinye.
Now stood the lordes squyer at the bord, That carf his mete, and herde, word by word, Of alle thinges of which I have yow sayd.
Thus can a squyer doon a gentil dede, do As wel as can a knyghte, withouten drede.
He slewe a knyght of Lancashire, And a squyer bolde; For to save him in his ryght My godes beth sette and solde.
That may pay for the best, Or some knyght or som squyer That dwelleth here bi west.
No more ye shall no gode yeman That walketh by grene-wode shawe; Ne no knyght ne no squyer That wol be a gode felawe.
And, when the squyer had done so, He served them all[26] to and fro.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "squyer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
