bidden

A child soon finds out that to say "I won't" when he is bidden to do something is indiscreet as well as vulgar.

There isn't a girl in a thousand who'd have done that decent thing without being bidden; but—Hello!

Then they began to talk among themselves: what had they done to be thus bidden to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees?

He had acted as Ruth had bidden him; but he had no wish to be further involved in this affair, whatever it might portend.