What is "bewray"

Usage examples of "bewray".

Horace, giving the poets a pill, but our fellow Shakespeare hath given him a purge that made him bewray his credit.

Thereat laughed they all right jocundly only young Stephen and sir Leopold which never durst laugh too open by reason of a strange humour which he would not bewray and also for that he rued for her that bare whoso she might be or wheresoever.

I was a stranger in that company, A Galilean whom his speech bewrayed, And when they lifted up their songs of glee, My voice sad discord made.

In other manner than ye hear me say, He durste not to her his woe bewray, Save that paraventure sometimes at dances, Where younge folke keep their observances, It may well be he looked on her face In such a wise, as man that asketh grace, But nothing wiste she of his intent.

But verily our good Captaine Thrasileon, the honour of our comfort, received his death so patiently, that he would not bewray the league betweene us, either by crying, howling, or any other meanes, but being torn with dogs and wounded with weapons, did yeeld forth a dolefull cry, more like unto a beast than a man.

Unto his foes his counsel gan bewray, And him forsook, and took another new.

Thereat laughed they all right jocundly only young Stephen and sir Leopold which never durst laugh too open by reason of a strange humour which he would not bewray and also for that he rued for her that bare whoso she might be or wheresoever.

And if there were nothing else that bewrayed their madness, yet that very arrogating such inspiration to themselves is argument enough.

It fortuned, faire Venus hauing lostHer little sonne, the winged god of loue,Who for some light displeasure, which him crost,Was from her fled, as flit as ayerie Doue,And left her blisfull bowre of ioy aboue,(So from her often he had fled away,When she for ought him sharpely did reproue,And wandred in the world in strange aray,Disguiz'd in thousand shapes, that none might him bewray.

For they do nothing els, that will have every of their passions, as it comes to bear sway in them, to be taken for right Reason, and that in their own controversies: bewraying their want of right Reason, by the claym they lay to it.

But when he was hard on forty years old, he came across a daughter of a certain lord, whom he had vanquished, and his eyes bewrayed him into longing, so that he gave back to the said lord the havings he had conquered of him that he might lay the maiden in his kingly bed.

Nor needs none shaft ne stele from Phenicia or Little Asia to obelise on the spout, neither pobalclock neither folksstone, nor sunkenness in Tomar's Wood to bewray how erpressgangs score off the rued.