“Arondel, queth Beues tho,
For me loue go bet, go.”
Sir Beues of Hamtoun, p. 129. Maitl. ed.
“Go bet, quod he, and axe redily,
What corps is this,” &c.
Chaucer’s Pardoneres Tale, v. 12601. ed. Tyrwhitt,—
who observes that in the following lines of Chaucer’s Legend of Dido (288), go bet seems to be a term of the chase;
“The herd of hartes founden is anon,
With hey, go bet, pricke thou, let gon, let gon.”
“He hath made me daunce, maugre my hede,