Citations:squiereth

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Middle English citations of squiereth

  1. (transitive, 3rd person present) squires, attends as a squire
    • 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue,” lines 303-307,[1]
      And yet of our apprentice Ianekyn,
      For his crisp heer, shyninge as gold so fyn,
      And for he squiereth me bothe up and doun,
      Yet hastow caught a fals suspecioun;
      I wol hym noght, thogh thou were deed to-morwe.