What is "seruant"

Usage examples of "seruant".

In which his worke he had sixe seruants prest,About the Andvile standing euermore,With huge great hammers, that did neuer restFrom heaping stroakes, which thereon soused sore:All sixe strong groomes, but one then other more:For by degrees they all were disagreed.

But it was scornefull Braggadocchio,That with his seruant Trompart houerd there,Sith late he fled from his too earnest foe:Whom such when as Malbecco spyed clere,He turned backe, and would haue fled arere.

Whiles thus they strugled in that idle waue,And stroue in vaine, the one himselfe to drowne,The other both from drowning for to saue,Lo, to that shore one in an auncient gowne,Whose hoarie locks great grauitie did crowne,Holding in hand a goodly arming sword,By fortune came, led with the troublous sowne:Where drenched deepe he found in that dull fordThe carefull seruant, striuing with his raging Lord.

Then turning to his Palmer said, Old syreBehold the image of mortalitie,And feeble nature cloth'd with fleshly tyre,When raging passion with fierce tyrannieRobs reason of her due regalitieAnd makes it seruant to her basest part:The strong it weakens with infirmitie,And with bold furie armes the weakest hart.

Malbecco seeing them resolu'd in deedTo flame the gates, and hearing them to callFor fire in earnest, ran with fearefull speed,And to them calling from the castle wall,Besought them humbly, him to beare withal,As ignoraunt of seruants bad abuse,And slacke attendaunce vnto straungers call.