Crossword-Solution: ENSAMPLER 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

They deliberately turned their backs on the worn-out and discredited imperial trappings of the Thothmes and Ramses, and they took the supposed primitive simplicity of the Snefrus, the Khufus, and the Ne-user-Râs for a model and ensampler to their lives.

Though she probably had never read "A Winter's Tale" with sufficient attention to know that "A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a!" she seemed to have adopted that couplet for her ensampler.

Neverthelesse soch thinges happened them for oure ensampler not that we shuld contrafayte their evill/ but if whyle we fight with oure selves enforsynge to walke in the law of god (as they did) we yet fall likewise/ that we despayre not/ but come agayn, to the lawes of god and take better holde ¶ We read sens the tyme of Christes deeth/ of virgins that have bene brought vnto the comẽstues/ and theye defyled/ and of martyrs that haue bene bounde and hores haue abvsed their bodyes.