meeke

Note also the Articles whereof he was accused, by order digested, and his meeke answeares, so farre as he had leave and leysure to speake.

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

For if the man be graue, his speech and stile is graue: if light-headed, his stile and language also light: if the minde be haughtie and hoate, the speech and stile is also vehement and stirring: if it be colde and temperate, the stile is also very modest: if it be humble, or base and meeke, so is also the language and stile.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

He translated his late Majesty's Icon into Latine, was Clerk of his Closet, Chaplaine, Deane of Westminster, and yet a most humble, meeke, but cheerful man, an

Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

_'And all must be meeke, sober and jentell and quiet and loving, and not give one another bad word noe time in the skouell, nor out of it

A Book of Quaker Saints 1911

Behaviour, humble in his conversation and meeke in his heart.

Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Rufus Matthew Jones 1905

There is not any vertue nor any good work that can make thee like to our Lord, without Humility and Charity, for these two above all other are most acceptable ( 'most leyf') to him, which appeareth plainly in the Gospel, where our Lord speaketh of humility thus; Learn of me, for I am meeke and humble in heart.

Revelations of Divine Love 1901

Isaiah 61: 1-3 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the LORD hath anointed me, to preach good tidings unto the meeke, hee hath sent me to binde up the broken hearted ...

A Testimony for Truth . . . 1655

Take my yoke upon you, and learne of me, for I am meeke and lowly in heart: and yee shall find rest unto your soules.

A Testimony for Truth . . . 1655

But if in presence of that fayrest proud thou chance to come, fall lowly at her feet: and with meeke humblesse and afflicted mood, pardon for thee, and grace for me intreat.

Amoretti and Epithalamion 1594

Yet I my hart with silence secretly will teach to speak, and my iust cause to plead: and eke mine eies with meeke humility, loue learned letters to her eyes to read.

Amoretti and Epithalamion 1594