"Preve" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... God, when he had Adam maked, And saw him all alone belly naked, God of his greate goodness saide then, Let us now make a help unto this man Like to himself; and then he made him Eve. Here may ye see, and hereby may ye preve,* *prove That a wife is man s help and his comfort, His paradise terrestre and his disport. So buxom* and so virtuous is she, *obedient, complying They muste needes live in unity; One flesh they be, and one blood, as I guess, With but one heart ...
— The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems • Geoffrey Chaucer
... see thee well curried by and by; And, by Christ, if any man would it do, I myself would help thereto. For a man may see, thou whoreson goose, Thou wouldest lese thine arse, if it were loose! Albeit I would never the deed believe, But that the thing itself doth show and preve.[194] There was never ape so like unto an ape, As he is to me in feature and shape; But what woll my master say, trow ye, When he shall this gear hear and see? Will he know me, think you, when he shall see me? If he do not, another woll as ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. II • Robert Dodsley |
