byde
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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My lorde your father he gretes yow well, Wyth many a noble knyght; He desyres yow to byde That he may see thys fyght.
From Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series by Frank Sidgwick
My trowth ys plyght to yonne Skottysh knyght, It nedes me not to layne, That I schalde byde hym upon thys bent, And I have hys trowth agayne.
From Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series by Frank Sidgwick
If truthe maie trie it selfe, By Reasons prudent skyll, If reason maie preuayle by right, And rule the rage of will, I dare the triall byde, For truthe that I pretende.
From The Path-Way to Knowledg Containing the First Principles of Geometrie by Robert Record
To dryue out of the churche suche as there do syn Forsoth I thynke, right fewe sholde byde within The Enuoy To the Reders.
From The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 by Alexander Barclay
‘Ther schall I byde the,’ sayd the Dowglas, ‘By the fayth of my bodye’: ‘Thether schall I com,’ sayd Syr Harry Perssy, ‘My trowth I plyght to the.’
From Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series by Frank Sidgwick
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