Citations:squiereth

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.