What is "marke"

Usage examples of "marke".

Since I have spoken of my schoolboyish agitation over Marketa, I should point out that it stemmed not so much from my being in love as from my awkward lack of self-assurance, which weighed on me and came to rule my thoughts and feelings much more than Marketa herself.

Ne shame he thought to shunne so hideous might:The idle stroke, enforcing furious way,Missing the marke of his misaymed sightDid fall to ground, and with his heauie swaySo deepely dinted in the driuen clay,That three yardes deepe a furrow vp did throw:The sad earth wounded with so sore assay,Did grone full grieuous vnderneath the blow,And trembling with strange feare, did like an earthquake show.

And sure he was a man of mickle might,Had he had gouernance, it well to guide:But when the franticke fit inflamd his spright,His force was vaine, and strooke more often wide,Then at the aymed marke, which he had eide:And oft himselfe he chaunst to hurt vnwares,Whilst reason blent through passion, nought descride,But as a blindfold Bull at randon fares,And where he hits, nought knowes, & whom he hurts, nought cares.

Tristan is silent, though Marke bewails the treachery of his nephew and his friend.

I meene of Marke, Mathew, Luc, and John, But doutelees hir sentence is al oon, Therfore, lordynges alle, I yow biseche If that yow thynke I varie as in my speche, As thus, though that I telle somwhat moore Of proverbes, than ye han herd bifoore, Comprehended in this litel tretys heere, To enforce with theffect of my mateere, And though I nat the same wordes seye As ye han herd, yet to yow alle I preye, Blameth me nat.

She her beholding with attentiue eye,At length did marke about her purple brestThat precious iuell, which she formerlyHad knowne right well with colourd ribbands drest:Therewith she rose in hast, and her addrestWith ready hand it to haue reft away.

Who in a morning, when this Mayden faireWas dighting her, hauing her snowy brestAs yet not laced, nor her golden haireInto their comely tresses dewly drest,Chaunst to espy vpon her yuory chestThe rosie marke, which she remembred wellThat litle Infant had, which forth she kest,The daughter of her Lady Claribell,The which she bore, the whiles in prison she did dwell.

But the Old Testament had nothing of Christ, but the Markes by which men might know him when hee came.