Ware, Sir, atte the reverens of God bethenke yow well of all these maters.
Soom sey he wrotte moche thenke [thing] to be delyverd to the Kynge, but thet is not verily knowe.
Nay, nay, but ever in oon be fresh and grene To serve and love his dere hertes quene, And thenke it is a guerdoun hir to serve A thousand-fold more than he can deserve.
I prey you that yf ye thenke that it wull not be, that it like you that to sey that ye meve it of your self, and not be my desire.
Gamelyn · 'and if it so be, And thou thenke as thou seyst · god yelde it thee!
Bot if I hadde riht good leve, Such mecherie I thenke leve: Mi feinte herte wol noght serve; For malgre wolde I noght deserve In thilke place wher I love.
Upon the point that is befalle Of love, in which that I am falle, I thenketelle my matiere: Now herkne, who that wol it hiere, Of my fortune how that it ferde.
Lo suche ben mi lustes thre; Of that I thenke and hiere and se 940 I take of love my fiedinge Withoute tastinge or fielinge: And as the Plover doth of Eir I live, and am in good espeir That for no such delicacie I trowe I do no glotonie.
Bot forto clare mi matiere, To Tyr I thenketorne ayein, And telle as the Croniqes sein.
Bot nou to mi matiere forth, 2690 As forto speken overmore After the Philosophres lore, The thridde point of Policie I thenke forto specifie.
Wherof a tale unto hire Ere, Which is coupable upon this dede, I thenke telle of that I rede.
The fame of thilke schepes fell, Which in Colchos, as it befell, Was al of gold, schal nevere deie; Wherof I thenke for to seie Hou it cam ferst into that yle.
Wiche emboldeth me to call uppon you now; and also remembrynge the honour of the offyce doynge and the neighnesse of blode that ye be of to me, I thenkeno person so convenable to ocupye in myn absence as you.
Pleace it the same to wite that I thenke right longe to I have veerey knolege of your welfare, the which undrestande wil be to me right grete comfort.
And also I wolde alle tho were dede That thenke not in love hir lyf to lede; For who that wol the god of love not serve, I dar wel say, is worthy for to sterve; And for that skil "ocy!
But yit this arwe, withoute more, 1895 Made in myn herte a large sore, That in ful gret peyne I abood.
I must abide, though it me rewe, 1840 The hegge aboute so thikke was, That closid the roses in compas.
I suspect that the correct reading is thenke ben; to is not wanted, and thenke is better with a final e, though it is sometimes dropped in the pres.
And thenke ye that furthered be your name, To love a newe, and been untrewe?
And though thou go, yet must thee nede Thenke al-day on hir fairhede, Whom thou bihelde with so good wille; 2485 And holde thysilf bigyled ille, That thou ne haddest non hardement To shewe hir ought of thyn entent.
And whan I thenke upon the kisse, And how muche Ioye and blisse I hadde thurgh the savour swete, 4115 For wante of it I grone and grete.
For fals lovers mowe al folye Seyn, what hem lust, withouten drede, They be so double in hir falshede; 2540 For they in herte cunne thenke a thing And seyn another, in hir speking.
And he had also in his gardyn alle maner of foules and of bestes that ony man myghte thenke on, for to have pley or desport to beholde hem.
Wherfore thou scholdest thenke and impresse it in thi mynde, that nothing is immortalle, but only God, that made alle thing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thenke" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
