bespake

[bih-speyk]

verb

Archaic.

1. simple past tense of bespeak.

Example Sentences

I never hurt you: You drew your sword upon me, without cause; But I bespake you fair, and hurt you not.

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The stars with deep amaze, Stand fixed in steadfast gaze, Bending one way their precious influence; And will not take their flight For all the morning light, Or Lucifer that often warned them thence; But in their glimmering orbs did glow Until their Lord himself bespake, and bid them go.

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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!

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LI Thus she bespake Sir Hagan, "That shield I freely give, And would to God the warrior among us still did live, Who bore it erst in battle; dead on the field he lay; Him must I weep for ever, mourning my life away."

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XIV Now every path and outlet the huntsmen had beset, When thus bespake Sir Siegfried the chiefs who there were met.

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