"Lere" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is frute and fudis, My fader exhortis us turn againe our studis To Delos, and Apollois ansure spere, Be seiking him of succours us to lere." ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume I. • R. Dodsley
... Wolnoth, pausing from the contemplation of a silk robe, all covered with broidered peacocks, which had been sent him as a gift from his sister the Queen, and wrought with her own fair hands; for a notable needle-woman, despite her sage lere, was the wife of the Saint King, as sorrowful women mostly are,—"Tut! the bird must leave the nest when the wings are fledged. Harold the eagle, Tostig the kite, Gurth the ring-dove, and Leofwine the stare. See, my wings are the richest of all, mother, and bright is the sun in which thy peacock ...
— Harold, Complete - The Last Of The Saxon Kings • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... best taught and therto of playsaunce She was the welle eke of honeste An Examplair and mirrour eke was she Of secretnes of trouthe of feit[h]fulnes And to alle other lady and maistres To shewe vertu who so list to lere And so this lady right humble of chere Kneling I sawe, clad in grene ...
— The Temple of Glass • John Lydgate
... sat beside a springe All in the shadow of a bushye brere, That Colin height, which well could pype and singe, For hee of Tityrus his songs did lere. ...
— A Biography of Edmund Spenser • John W. Hales |
