___ honorable (formal apology)

Usage examples of amende.

This Theseus, this Duke, this worthy knight When he had brought them into his city, And inned* them, ev'reach at his degree, *lodged He feasteth them, and doth so great labour To *easen them*, and do them all honour, *make them comfortable* That yet men weene* that no mannes wit *think Of none estate could amenden* it.

And ere that we departe from this place, I rede that we make of sorrows two One perfect joye lasting evermo': And look now where most sorrow is herein, There will I first amenden and begin.

Now Nicholas was risen up to piss, And thought he would *amenden all the jape*.

And since I shall have none amendement Against my loss, I will have easement: By Godde's soul, it shall none, other be.

Sit down anon, and tell me what your grieve* is, *grievance, grief And it shall be amended, if I may.

I have my body foolishly dispended, Blessed be God that it shall be amended.

And for to chide, it were but a folly, Since that the thing might not amended be.

For when degrees fiftene were ascended, Then crew he, that it might not be amended.

This is not couched as it ought to be, But soon I shall amenden it," quoth he.

She now came to the porch of the Conciergerie, between the court and the first door, and there she was made to sit down, so as to be put into the right condition for making the 'amende honorable'.

As the doctor spoke these words, the executioner placed in the marquise's hands the lighted torch which she was to carry to NotreDame, there to make the 'amende honorable', and as it was too heavy, weighing two pounds, the doctor supported it with his right hand, while the registrar read her sentence aloud a second time.

Then the registrar read the 'amende honorable' from a written paper, and she began to say it after him, but in so low a voice that the executioner said loudly, "Speak out as he does.

The 'amende honorable' over, the executioner again carried her to the tumbril, not giving her the torch any more: the doctor sat beside her: all was just as before, and the tumbril went on towards La Greve.

There, in front of the Cathedral, candle in hand and rope round his neck, he made the amende honorable.

Her offer to type the story which now lay on her desk had been the amende honourable following on just such a scene with her aunt as this promised to be.