Citations:bewry

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• 1500, Le Bone Florence of Rome:

  They dud wyth hym as wyth þe dedd; They beryed hym in a ryall stedd.

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• 1589-1600, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation:

  They bewry not vp their asshes in pottes dasshed full of pearle and precious stone.

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• 1891, Ezekiel Sanford, A history of the United States before the Revolution, page 275:

  Isaiah xvi. 3, 4. 'Take council, execute judgment, make they shadow as the night in the midst of the noon-day; hide the out-casts, bewry not him that wandereth.'

• 1848 [2024 May 7], George Ellis, “Sir Ferumbras”, in Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances‎^[1], British Museum, translation of ms. Bibl. Reg. 15 E. vi., page 392:

  "Go there," she said; "the devil thee speed!

  My counsel shalt thou never bewry:¹

  Whoso will not help a man at need,

  An evil death mote he die!"

  […]

  ¹ Betray.

• 1837, Samuel Astley Dunham, Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Great Britain and Ireland‎^[2], page 142:

  O that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow: he brought up Horace giving the poets a pill † ; but our fellow, Shakespear, hath given him a purge that made him bewry his credit.

• This looks like an alternative form of (or perhaps a misspelling/typo) for bewray Leasnam (talk) 05:16, 26 January 2018 (UTC)