"Trewe" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... him the bit of paper; and he read these words: "Trew it is, that thir Ilandish men ar of nature verie prowd, suspicious, avaricious, full of decept and evill inventioun each aganis his nychtbour, be what way soever he may circumvin him. Besydis all this, they ar sa crewall in taking of revenge that nather have they regard to person, ...
— Macleod of Dare • William Black
... druffen noa mooar, It's th' last time is this, an that's trew,— For mi booans is all shakkin an sooar, Throo th' craan o' ...
— Yorkshire Tales. Third Series - Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect • John Hartley
... with fine fingers cropt{10} full feateously The tender stalkes on hye.{11} Of every sort which in that meadow grew, They gathered some; the violet, pallid{12} blew, The little dazie that at evening closes, The virgin lillie, and the primrose trew,{13} With store{14} of vermeil roses, To deck their bridegroomes posies{15} Against the brydale-day, which was not long: Sweet Themmes! runne softly till I end ...
— Six Centuries of English Poetry - Tennyson to Chaucer • James Baldwin |
