Lexicographical Neighbors of Betight
Literary usage of Betight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of English Poetry by William John Courthope (1897)
"... Milton with the suggestion of a passage in Lycidas:— Why wail we then ?
why weary we the Gods with plaints, As if some evil were to her betight ? ..."
2. A History of English Poetry by William John Courthope (1904)
"... Why wail we then ? why weary we the Gods with plaints, As if some evil were
to her betight ? She reigns a goddess now among the saints That whilome was ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1875)
"Here are two of them : " Why wail we then ? why weary we the "gods with pla¡nts,
As if some evil were to her betight ? ..."
4. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"(sv Teem, vb.1 7). betight, pp. for betid or betided; happened. Spenser, Shep.
Kal., Nov., 174. betso, a small Venetian coin ; worth about a farthing. ..."
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