These olde wemen kepte so hir name, *That in this world I trow men shal nat finde *A man that coude be so trewe and kinde, *As was the leste woman in that tyde.
One of the latest is "The twa Maryit Wemen and the Wedo" [Widow], of William Dunbar.
For we wald never have belevit that our naturall countrey men and wemen could have wisshed our destructioun so unmercifullie, and have so rejosed in our adversitie: God move thair heartis to repentance!
But as gold and wemen have corrupted all wordlye and fleschlye men from the begynning, so did thei him.
O woful wrachit wemen all, quod sche, 5 Quhilk to the deth, vndir the wallys hie Of ȝour natyve cite and kynd landis, War not in batell harlyt by Grekis handis!
The Troiane wemen stude with hayr down schaik, About the beir weping with mony allake!
Baith to and fro our all the cuntre syne Wemen and moderis, effrayt of this cace, 5 Thar ȝyng childring fast to thar brestis dyd brace.
All thocht that women brocht thame to foly, 5 Ȝyt hait thai not wemen aluterly.
And of thir salt fludis sa braid a way Remanys ȝyt, fortyl ourslyde and sayll, By ws wemen irkyt of lang travaill!
Wemen and barnys, the gud thai tuk thaim fra, Syn gaiff thaim leyff in to realm to ga; 520 And preystis als, that war nocht in the feild.
Apon the morn, quhen that the day was brycht, With gentill wemen hapnyt thaim to pass, Off Ingland born, in Lithquhow wounnand was.
The wemensone thai seysyt in to hand, Kepyt thaim closs, for warnyng off the land.
Wemen may be contempnyng in to wer, “Amang fullis that can thaim nocht forber.
The wemen sone he sauffyt fra the dede; Waik folk he put, and barnys, off that stede.
A prest thar was, and gentill wemen with in, Quhilk for the fyr maid hiddewis noyis and dyn.
Quhen Wallace saw the fredom off the queyn, Sadly he said; “The suth weyll has beyn seyn, “Wemen may tempt the wysest at is wrocht.
Twelf scor thai slew that was off Ingland born; Wemen thai lewit and preistis, on the morn, To pass thar way, off blyss and gudis bar; And swor that thai agayne suld cum no mar.
A hardy man, that is lykly with all, Gret fawour will off fortoun till him fall, 1140 Anent wemen is seyne in mony place.
Sexty thai slew; in that hald was no ma, Bot ane auld preist, and sympill wemen twa.
Wemen and barnys Wallace gert freith thaim all: And syn gert cry trew Scottis men to thair awn; 915 Plenyst the land quhilk lang had been ourthrawn.
He sparyt nane that abill was to wer; Bot wemen and preystis he gart thaim ay forber.
Such styneken pryde of wemen as was sein at that Parliament, was never sein befoir in Scotland.
And all wementhat wander bee at their commaundemente.
Yet these vpright men stand so much vpon their reputation, as they wyl in no case haue their wemen walke with them, but seperat them selues for a tyme, a moneth or more.
The two ships now proceeded north in company to the Barentz Isles, where a dépôt of provisions was established.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wemen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
