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Usage examples of "chees".
Therfore he made hym dyen in this wise, But nathelees, this Seneca the wise Chees in a bath to dye in this manere, Rather than han anoother tormentise, And thus hath Nero slayn his maister deere.
And at the laste he chees hym for to wende, And come agayn right at the yeres ende, With swich answere as God wolde hym purveye.
For Goddes love, as chees a newe requeste, Taak al my good, and lat my body go!
And ther as ye of poverte me repreeve, The hye God, on whom that we bileeve In wilful poverte chees to lyve his lyf.
But was ther noon of al that compaignye That she nas slayn, and with a good entente Chees rather for to dye than assente To been oppressed of hir maydenhede.
For whan she saugh that Romayns wan the toun, She took hir children alle and skipte adoun Into the fyr, and chees rather to dye Than any Romayn dide hir vileynye.
How trewe eek was to Alcebiades His love that rather for to dyen chees Than for to suffre his body unburyed be.
Thow mayde and mooder, doghter of thy sone, Thow welle of mercy, synful soules cure, In whom that God for bountee chees to wone, Thow humble and heigh, over every creature Thow nobledest so ferforth oure nature, That no desdeyn the makere hadde of kynde, His sone in blood and flessh to clothe and wynde, Withinne the cloistre blisful of thy sydis Took mannes shape the eterneel love and pees, That of the tryne compas lord and gyde is, Whom erthe and see and hevene out of relees Ay heryen, and thou, virgine wemmelees, Baar of thy body, and dweltest mayden pure, The creatour of every creature.
For Godde's sake, think how I thee chees,* *chose Not for no covetise* doubteless, * covetousness But only for the love I had to thee.
He was known about town as the Master Cheeser, or simply Cheeser which wasn't at all strange.
The proposal, a bit much for the Cheeser, was best pondered by the light of day.
But I put the damper on it, Cheeser, because I know you're not one for that sort of celebratin'.
And yet I'm sure, Cheeser, that in this world of ours, science doesn't hold the only key.
And, Cheeser, you said once that you and me couldn't go a-rafting without we took a fine dog like Ahab along beside us.
Of all the things the Cheeser disliked, being upset was the worst, and so usually, if he had the choice, he ignored anything that would provoke such a thing.