behight

(bɪˈhaɪt)

a vow or promise

vb (tr)

to promise; vow

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References in periodicals archive

Thy kyngdome prosper shall, and eke the walles I thee behight: Thou shalt see rise in luivyne land and grow ful great of might.

Fortune's breath: rewriting the classical storm in the drama of Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare

and if that it you please To go with me, I shall do you the ease In all the pleasure that I can or may.' Whereof the tother, humbly as she might, Thanked her; for in right ill array She was with storm and heat, I you behight. (386-96) The unity of the rhyme royal stanza is distorted in direct contrast to the norms of English poetry from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

'Wrethen in fere': narrative voice, gender and chastity in The Floure and the Leafe

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