bespake

American  

[bih-speyk] / bɪˈspeɪk /

verb

Archaic.

1. simple past tense of bespeak.

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Example Sentences

And then bespake the stringes all three, With, &c.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) 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 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

With that bespake the master brave:105 "Worshipfull master, thither goes this pretty youth, And any thing that you would have, He will performe it, and write the truth."

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV 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