Twentye times she kissed, And his face did wash With her trickling teares: Every gaping wound 105 Tenderlye she pressed, And did wipe it round With her golden haires.
He layd a bright browne sword by his side, And another att his feete: "And twentye good knights he placed at hand, To watch him in his sleepe.
Full twoe and twentye severall liverye coatts, Made & composed all for severall yeares, Have I runne throughe in your most faythfull service.
Yet I've heard a tale Of a feirce snake that wounded by a swayne Rememberd it for twentye yeares together And at the last revendgd it; so may he.
Here's twentye groates out of my purse; And twentye I have of thine: And I have one more, which we will spend Together at the wine.
And soone before our king they came, And knelt downe on the grounde: Then might the tanner have beene awaye, He had lever than twentye pounde.
Noe pence nor halfpence, Sir, by my faye, But I will have twentye pound.
Here's twentye groates of white moneye, Sith thou will have it of mee.
If these vpright men haue nether money nor wares, at these houses they shalbe trusted for their vitales, and it amount to twentye or thirty shyllings.
Johne of Gaunte made in the fowre andtwentye yere of his age.
Here's twentye groates out of my purse; 145 And twentye I have of thine: And I have one more, which we will spend Together at the wine.
Noe pence nor halfpence, sir, by my faye, But I will have twentye pound.
Here's twentye groates out of my purse, 145 And twentye I have of thine; And I have one more, which we will spend Together at the wine.
Of horses and serving-men we must have store, With bridles and saddles, and twentye things more.
And soone before our king they came, And knelt downe on the grounde; Then might the tanner have beene awaye, He had lever than twentye pounde.
Setting forth the condition and pursuits of law-students in his day, Sir John Fortesque continues; "For in these greater inns, there can no student bee mayntayned for lesse expenses by the yeare than twentye markes.
Fortescue, speaking of his own time, says: "There can no student bee mayntayned for lesse expenses by the yeare than twentye markes.
This town doth containe neare fiue and twentye thousand houses (as some say) but as euery house städeth by himselfe like an Iland, it seemeth much bigger than it is in déede.
Héere they abode twentye dayes, and in thys meane whyle there came so manye to buy and sell, that it was a wonder to sée.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "twentye" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
