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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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Then bespake Little John, To Much he 'gan say: "I dare lay my life to wed These monks have brought our pay!"

From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various

And then bespake Sir Bredbeddle, 265 To the feend these words said hee: Says, "I coniure thee, thou Burlow-beanie, The powder-box thou feitch me."

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

And then bespake him King Arthur, "Alas! thou gentle knight, how may this be, That I might see him in the same licknesse, That he stood unto thee?"

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

And then bespake him the Greene Knight, 230 And these were the words said he: Saith, "I coniure thee, thou fowle feend, That thou feitch downe the steed that we see."

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

Then bespake him Cornewall King, These were the words he said there: 80 "Did you ever know a comely King, His name was King Arthur?"

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

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