byde
Britishverb
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Sone after that, doun in thy bed thee leye, And sey, thow mayst no lenger up endure, And ly right there, and byde thyn aventure.
From Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer
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
‘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
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
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
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