Wenest thou thanne that he be mighty, that hath no power to don a thing, that othre ne may don in him that he doth in othre?
Thou wenest that Fortune be 35 chaunged ayein thee; but thou wenest wrong, yif thou that wene.
Wenest thou thanne that thou oughtest to leten this a litel thing, that this aspre and horrible Fortune hath discovered to thee the thoughtes of thy trewe freendes?
For if thou therfor wenest thy-self nat weleful, for thinges that tho semeden ioyful ben passed, ther nis nat why thou sholdest wene thy-self a wrecche; for thinges that semen now sorye passen also.
But I axe yif that thou wenest that hap be any thing in any weys; and, yif thou wenest that hap be anything, what is it?
Who-so toke a wethers skin, And wrapped a gredy wolf therin, 6260 For he shulde go with lambis whyte, Wenest thou not he wolde hem byte?
And if thou laudest and joyest any wight, for he is stuffed with suche maner richesse, thou art in that beleve begyled; for thou wenest thilke joye to be selinesse or els ese; and he that hath lost suche happes to ben unsely.
Chaucer's 'wenest thou thanne that thou oughtest to leten this a litel thing, that this .
Wenest aught thy-selfe 35 yet be in the hye way to my blisse?
And thou saydest thy-selfe, thou mightest nat be holpen as thou wenest, bycause that vertue in thee fayleth; and this blisse parfitly without vertue may nat be 115 goten; thou wenest of these wordes contradiccion to folowe.
Now,' quod she, 'what wenest thou of these thinges?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wenest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
