Ah, Launcelot, he said, thou were head of all Christian knights!
Nay truly, not so, that shameful sight causeth me to have courage and hardiness against thee, more than I would have had against thee and thou were a well-ruled knight.
Well, said the good man, thou were better to be counselled.
Chaucer appears not to have inflected this word in the second person: "Also ryght as thou were ensample of moche folde errour, righte so thou must be ensample of manifold correction.
Lo, whan 100 thou were emprisonned, how faste they hyed in helpe of thy deliveraunce!
And if that Margarite denyeth now nat 120 to suffre her vertues shyne to thee-wardes with spredinge bemes, as far or farther than if thou were sely in worldly joye, trewly, I saye nat els but she is somdel to blame.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thou were" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
