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• past tense form of bespeak.

bespake

American  

[bih-spayk] / bɪˈspeɪk /

verb

Archaic.

1. simple past tense of bespeak.

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bespake

Then bespake Cornwall King againe, These were the words said he.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

She found herself in a large square room sparsely but comfortably furnished in a style that bespake it as the former sitting-room of the dead and buried Japhas.

From The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life by Anna Katharine Green

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

Then bespake him Sir Marramile, And these were the words said hee: "Riding of this steed, brother Bredbeddle, 240 The mastery belongs to me."

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

Then bespake him Sir Bredbeddle, These were the words said he: 255 "I coniure thee, thou Burlow-beane, Thou tell me how this steed was riddin in his country."

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

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