bespake
Americanverb
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Then up bespake a little bird, That sat upon a tree: "Gae hame, gae hame, ye fause lady,35 And pay your maids their fee."
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
And then bespake the stringes all three, With, &c.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
Then bespake him the Greene Knight, These were the words said hee: 220 Saies, "I doe coniure thee, thou fowle feend, In the same licknesse thou stood unto me."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various
With that bespake the seven brethren, Making most piteous moan: 'You may go kiss your jolly brown bride, And let our sister alone.'
From The Romantic Scottish Ballads: Their Epoch and Authorship by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Thus, full attired In all her ornaments, she issued forth, And beck'ning Venus from the other pow'rs Of Heav'n apart, the Goddess thus bespake: 'Daughter, beloved!
From The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) by John Knowles
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