Sorwe

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Sor´we

n. & v.

Sorrow.

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It is grete sorwe and care boy that thou art alyve.

(Breaking) the law: social control, self-help and violence in the tale of Gamelyn

To emphasize this revisionist concern with cross-species compassion, Canacee swears by the "grete God of kynde" as she addresses another species, and expresses a bond between them: "Ye sle me with youre sorwe verraily, / I have of yow so greet compassioun" (V 462-63, 469).

A cautionary elephant

Such sorowe this lady to her tok That trewly I, that made this book, Had such pittee and such rowthe To rede hir sorwe, that, by my trowthe, I ferde the worse al the morwe Aftir to thenken on hir sorwe.

Writing dreams to good: reading as writing and writing as reading in chaucer's dream visions

11) and moans in "a contynuel sorwe sobbyd" (Bk I, Prosa 5.

Chaucer, books, and the poetic library

such a grace god hire sente, That for the sorwe which sche made Was non of hem which power hade To don hire eny vileinie.

Pericles, Paul, and Protestantism

In the Purification play, as Symeon and Anna await the arrival of the holy family, Symeon muses to Anna: "Swych a sorwe bothe sharpe and smerte / [thorn]at as a swerd perce it xalle [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]even thorwe his moderys herte" (88-90).

"Veniance, Lord, apon thaym fall": maternal mourning, divine justice, and tragedy in the Corpus Christi plays

For whoso seeth me first on morwe My seyn he hath met with sorwe, For y am sorwe, and sorwe ys y.

"The dread of something after death"--the relationship between Shakespeare's Hamlet and some medieval dream visions and ghost stories

Chaucer's anxiety of poetic craft: the Squire's Tale

Be glad, thow redere, and thy sorwe of-caste; Al open am I--passe in, and sped thee faste

The Fey Beauty of A Midsummer Night's Dream: a Shakespearean comedy in its courtly context

Cryinge and care, chydynge and ches And sad sorwe to hem I sende, Za, lowde lesyngys lacchyd in les, Of talys vntrewe is al my mende.

Backbiter and the Rhetoric of Detraction

This present tense has a strong beating on the rest of the story, for if Troilus could in a single view have weighed his "present gladnesse" against his "double sorwe," he may have concluded that it is better never to have loved at all.

TIME AND ETERNITY IN TROILUS AND CRISEYDE

The grace in the Hereford MS is transcribed in Carleton Brown, A Register of Middle English Religious and Didactic Verse, 2 vols (London, 1916), I, 446, as follows: 'Ihc that the bred brac/To hys deciplys there he sat/In his holy sene/Blesse now wo<> mee<>/And all that therof ete/And schylde us from sorwe & tene.

Unrecorded Middle English verse in the library at Holkham Hall, Norfolk

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