bewray

So that had not thy untimely folly bewrayed itself, it may be that the syllogisms whereby our father hath cracked the crown of Canterbury should have had no other answer, or he himself none other punishment but this." The Just Censure and Reproof of Martin Junior, Tract 6, in Black, ed.

As when the daughter of Thaumantes faire, Hath in a watry cloud displayed wide Her goodly bow, which paints the liquid ayre; That all men wonder at her colours pride; All suddenly, ere one can looke aside, The glorious picture vanisheth away, Ne any token doth thereof abide: So did this Ladies goodly forme decay, And into nothing goe, ere one could it bewray. (Viii.25.1-9)

Related are Norwegian rogja ('to accuse', 'to gossip'), Swedish roja 'to tell as secret', Old Danish rogha, Old English wregan and wroht, English bewray, Dutch wroegen and Middle Low German wroge and wroch for 'legal accusation', 'punishment', and 'fine'.

but likewise haue all the glory I can gieue him, if hee lend mee the hearing of my woefull tale, a matter scarce fit for womans shamefastnes to bewray. But since without blushing I haue so long beene a talkatiue wench (whose words a world hath delighted in) I will now goe on boldly with my audacious manner: and so step I on the stage in my shrowding sheete as I was buried.(23)

Vpon the Death of the late noble Earle of Devonshire" in Certaine small workes (London, 1611; first ed.1606), probably suggested the figure of Peter as an actor: "let it now sufficient be, that I, / The last Scene of his act of life bewray; / Which gives th'applause t'all" (O7r; cf.

In fact, it stands out as one of the most militantly anti-royalist poems in print, retorting to those Parliamentarians who claim that the king has been misled by evil counsellors that should 'his gracious Majestie please (after the example of his dearest Father of blessed memory) to bewray his breeches, you had Voted this the act of his evill Councell' (2).

yet were I more than twice a fool to show you thereof; for it is written in your own law, 'No man is bound to bewray [accuse] himself'" Id.