bespake
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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With that bespake the seven brethren, Making most piteous mone, "You may go kiss your jolly brown bride,55 And let our sister alone."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
Then bespake our comely King To Sir Richard at the Lee: He gave him there his land again; A good man he bade him be.
From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various
Then bespake good Gilbert, And thus he 'gan say, "Master," he said, "your tackle is lost, Stand forth and take your pay!"
From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various
IX Last welcom'd he Sir Dankwart, who thus his host bespake, "Since you will give us shelter, pray who in charge will take The train we have brought hither, all in such weary plight?"
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
Then bespake him Little John, All unto Robin Hood, "Master, if ye would dine betime, It would do you much good!"
From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various
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