What is "bewails"

Usage examples of "bewails".

That, which thou seest in the under bow, Was William, whom that land bewails, which weeps For Charles and Frederick living: now he knows How well is lov'd in heav'n the righteous king, Which he betokens by his radiant seeming.

Yet, if the disasters he bewails had been lamented after the Christian religion had been diffused, and had begun to prevail, is there a man of our adversaries who would not have thought that they were to be imputed to the Christians?

The ghost bewails its fate that it cannot remain to play on, but must return whence it came.

Every spirit, Whose song bewails his gluttony indulg'd Too grossly, here in hunger and in thirst Is purified.

Tristan is silent, though Marke bewails the treachery of his nephew and his friend.

And as when a bride in her chamber bewails her youthful husband, to whom her brothers and parents have given her, nor yet does she hold converse with all her attendants for shame and for thinking of him.

In the course of his poem, he more than once bewails the peculiar hardness of his fate, thus doomed to lonely and inactive life, and shut up from the freedom and pleasure of the world in which the meanest animal indulges unrestrained.