Of al his purpose / and his hole entente How to plese in euery audyence And in our tunge / was welle of eloquence 350 THE ORIEL TEXT.
Unto laymen we vs refourme agayne As of chryste our mayster in maner halfe asshamed My hert doth wepe: my tunge doth sore complayne Seing howe our State is worthy to be blamed.
This Troilus in teres gan distille, As licour out of alambyk ful faste; 520 And Pandarus gan holde his tunge stille, And to the ground his eyen doun he caste.
And som men seyn, he was of tunge large; And heir he was of Calidoine and Arge.
This is not the firste day; For Wikkid-Tunge hath custom ay Yonge folkis to bewreye, And false lesinges on hem leye.
For no-thing eek thy tunge applye To speke wordis of ribaudye.
Non herte may thenke, ne tunge seyne, A quarter of my wo and peyne.
On me he leyeth a pitous charge, Bicause his tungewas to large.
His tunge was fyled sharp, and squar, Poignaunt and right kerving, And wonder bitter in speking.
He mighte not his tunge withstonde Worse to reporte than he fonde, He was so ful of cursed rage; It sat him wel of his linage, 3810 For him an Irish womman bar.
In armes he that wol travaile Or elles loves grace atteigne, His lose tunge he mot restreigne, 2660 Which berth of his honour the keie.
Bot yit is noght the love lassed, Which I unto mi ladi have; For thogh my tunge is slowh to crave At alle time, as I have bede, Min herte stant evere in o stede And axeth besiliche grace, The which I mai noght yit embrace.
The word is tokne of that withinne, Ther schal a worthi king beginne To kepe his tunge and to be trewe, So schal his pris ben evere newe.
Tho was no sorwe forto seke: Hire housebonde, hire fader eke Aswoune upon the bodi felle; Ther mai no mannes tunge telle 5080 In which anguisshe that thei were.
And thogh the clerk and the clergesse 980 In latin tunge it rede and singe, Yit for the more knoulechinge Of trouthe, which is good to wite, I schal declare as it is write In Engleissh, for thus it began.
For men sein that the harde bon, Althogh himselven have non, A tunge brekth it al to pieces.
Mi Sone, be thou war ther by, And hold thi tunge stille clos: For who that hath his word desclos 770 Er that he wite what he mene, He is fulofte nyh his tene And lest ful many time grace, Wher that he wolde his thonk pourchace.
Lo hou litel fier breuneth a ful greet word: and our tunge is fier, the unyversitie of wickidnesse.
A] "The tunge is but a litel membre, and reiseth greet thingis.
And atter on is tunge cliuen; 372 Envy, strife, hate, and shame shall be between the adder and the woman.
And atter on istunge cliuen, And poison on his tongue shall cleave.
Is it not better for one his tunge to kepe Where as he myght (perchaunce) with honestee, Than wordes to speke whiche make hym after wepe For great losse folowynge wo and adversyte?
If any do hym wronge or injury He must it suffer and pacyently endure A double tunge with wordes like hony; And of his offycis if he wyll be sure He must be sober and colde of his langage, More to a knave, than to one of hye lynage.
A worde ones spokyn revoked can not be, Therfore thy fynger lay before thy types, For a wyse mannys tunge without advysement trypes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tunge" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
