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byde

British  
/ bəɪd /

verb

  1. a variant spelling of bide

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

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

Torent wold no lenger byde, But sent letters on euery side With fforce theder to hye.

From Torrent of Portyngale by Unknown

‘Where schall I byde the?’ sayd the Dowglas, ‘Or where wylte thow com to me?’

From Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series by Frank Sidgwick

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