Ile be playne with thee, For thy knowne love is worthye all my trust: He is an envyous torrent interposd Twixte me and many honors, Didier, And since unpassable must be choakt with earthe.
Syrha, no more; you shall goe home with me And learne to laughe at fortune; I have there A worthye matche and vertuous wife for thee And she shall pyle up all your flatterye: The courte hath no use for it.
These be all the verses w{hi}che I knowe or yet canne fynde, in whiche Gower in that booke mentioneth Chaucer, where he nether nameth hym worthye poet, nor after a sorte submyttethe his workes to his iudgmente.
These men I iudge scant worthye to whome we shulde put oure wylde horses to be broken, muche lesse wuld I thynke that thys tender and almost suckynge age shuld be committed to them.
Yet be ther some that thynke that these kynde of men, euen inespecyally worthyeto be set to teache yonge chyldren, whylest they thynke their sturdynes in lookynge is holynes.
Alexander, I thynke him worthye to be receiued amonge the meaner sorte.
Let not thys vyce of Femynine Flatterye spoyle the desertes of Noble Chyualrye, and vtterly deface those merytes with greater ignomynie than the cause of that offence is worthye of disprayse.
Whose vertuous loue and godlye continuance of the same, is worthye to bee sounded by Trompe of fame to the extreame partes of the Earth.
Likewise you do persuade vs to be quiet and circumspect in our affayres, which is a persuasion resembling the nature of a worthye Prynce and also of a pitifull father.
Anon Saynt Peter openyd the gatys, and bad hym to com in, and sayde he wasworthye to haue hys herytage, bycause he had had much troble and was worthye to haue a crowne of glory.
The lyttell morall boke[157] sayth: It is a foule thynge worthye rebuke and blame A vyce to reprehende and do the same.
When the governor of Scotland heard How that the worthye king was slaine, He persued the queen so bitterlye, That in Scotland shee dare not remaine.
With gun-powder they strewed his roome, And layd greene rushes in his way; For the traitors thought that very night 35 This worthye king for to betray.
For first I sayled to Normandye, And there I stoutlye wan in fight 30 The emperours daughter of Almaine, From manye a vallyant worthye knight.
Henry VIII: "John Talbot of Salebury, a verry gentyll Esqwyr, and well worthye to be takyne payne for.
For, if he have not of all thynges some vnderstanding, as well as of severall languages he is not worthye to be an herhaught.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "worthye" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
