"Appose" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... The father replies to the maiden. He says he is but dust and ashes. He wishes to ask one question,] "Neuer e les let be my onc," Q{uod} I, "my perle a[gh] I appose, I schulde not tempte y wyt so wlonc, To kryste[gh] chambre at art Ichose, 904 I am bot mokke & mul amo{n}g, & {o}u so ryche a reken rose, & byde[gh] here by ys blysful bonc er lyue[gh] lyste may neu{er} lose, ...
— Early English Alliterative Poems - in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century • Various
... expenses, and in fallynge to thy worke lustely. Poliphemus. Nay then I were a fole in dede, a penyworth of ease is euer worth a peny, and nowe I haue found so moch pleasure in ease that I can not fall to no labour. Canni. Do you kepe the commaundementes of god? Polip. Nowe ye appose me, kepe the comaundementes quod he, that is a payne in dede. Cannius. Art thou sory for thy synnes and thyne offences, doest thou ernestly repent the for the. Poliphemus. Christ hath payed the raunsome of synne ...
— Two Dyaloges (c. 1549) • Desiderius Erasmus |
