"Bewray" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Let not the sun Shine on him till he 's dead; let dogs and monkeys Only converse with him, and such dumb things To whom nature denies use to sound his name; Do not keep a paraquito, lest she learn it; If thou do love him, cut out thine own tongue, Lest it bewray him. ...
— The Duchess of Malfi • John Webster
... was now expired, and could, with the swan, discover his end by her songs, having three sons by his wife Lynida, the very pride of all his forepassed years, thought now, seeing death by constraint would compel him to leave them, to bestow upon them such a legacy as might bewray his love, and increase their ensuing amity. Calling, therefore, these young gentlemen before him, in the presence of all his fellow Knights of Malta, he resolved to leave them a memorial of all his fatherly care in setting down a method of their ...
— Rosalynde - or, Euphues' Golden Legacy • Thomas Lodge
... good niece, that you have said; For I perceive what sundry passions Strive in your breast, which oftentimes ere this Your countenance confused did bewray. The ground whereof since I perceive to grow On just respect of this your sole estate, And skilful care of fleeting youth's decay, Your wise foresight such sorrowing to eschew I much commend, and promise as I may To break this matter, and impart your mind Unto ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VII (4th edition) • Various
... It chaunced that he was paying wages that day to his souldiours, by whom his Secretarie did sit in such apparell, almost as the king himselfe did weare. Mutius being afraide to demaunde which of them was the king, lest he should bewray himselfe, sodainly killed the Secretarie in steede of the king, and as he was making waye with his bloudie sworde to escape, he was apprehended and brought before the king, and with maruailous stoutnesse and audacitie, spake these wordes: "I am a citizen of Rome, and my name ...
— The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 • William Painter
... we set sail presently for the said Sound; which within five days [21st August], we recovered: abstaining of purpose from all such occasion, as might hinder our determination, or bewray [betray] our ...
— Sir Francis Drake Revived • Philip Nichols
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