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Beswik(e, Beswyk, v. Also: besweik. [ME. beeswik, beswyke, biswike, OE. beswícan.] tr. To beguile, deceive. a1400 Legends of the Saints xxiii. 367.
Quhat menis thu ws to beswyk? c1500-c1512 Dunb. Tua Mar. W. 226.
Thus beswik [M. besweik] I that swane 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 122/23.
It is oft sene … That euerie swik oft tymes beswikis vther
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