In go the sperës sadly in the rest.
Chaucer, The Knightes Tale.
Therfor ye, britheren, bifor witynge kepe you silf, lest ye be disseyved bi errour of unwise men, and falle awei fro youre owne sadness firmitate, Vulg.].—2 Pet. iii. 17. Wiclif.
Benvolio. Tell me in sadness who she is you love?
Romeo. What, shall I groan, and tell you?
Ben. Groan? why, no;
But sadly tell me who?
Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, act i. sc. 1.
Sampler. This has now quite dissociated itself in meaning from ‘exemplar,’ of which it is the popular form, as ‘sample’ has done from ‘example;’ not so, however, once.
Job, the sawmpler of pacience.—Preparatory Epistles of St. Jerome to Wiclif’s Bible.