"Thus, thou poor and pitiful Prior, for thy rude speech and curses canonical we do requite thee with song sweet-sung and of notable rhyme and metre.

O, God requite your honour's courtesy.

Fair Marian, God requite it her, Doth even as much for Doncaster, Whom newly she hath lain in bed, To rest his weary, wounded head. SCATH.

My lord, I thank you for your honest care, And, as I may, will study to requite it.

I took much pains to requite that kindness, and now I cry quits with Master Andrew.'

V. interchange, exchange, counterchange^; bandy, transpose, shuffle, change bands, swap, permute, reciprocate, commute; give and take, return the compliment; play at puss in the corner, play at battledore and shuttlecock; retaliate &c 718; requite. rearrange, recombine.

Mahomet, anxious to requite his uncle in some way, and with his young imagination kindled at the prospect of new scenes and ideas, prepared eagerly for the journey.

The city of his birth was no exception to the rule: since Becquer's death it has made but little effort to requite his deep devotion or satisfy his youthful dreams.

He was said not only to have murdered his own brother, but, to requite Sulla for legalising the murder by including this brother's name in the list of the proscribed, to have committed the most horrible act of the Civil Warthe torture of Marcus Marius Gratidianus.

" Subsequently in the senate he designated him Caesar and sent a message to him, written with his own hand (Trajan was governor of Germany): "The Danaans by thy weapons shall requite my tears."

If thou wilt prove aught that is of grave importance to the interests of the Prince of Genoa, Valais owes it to the love it bears his republic to requite the service.

The vows to cherish and protect were uttered by Sigismund in deep manly sincerity, for, at that moment, he felt as if a life of devotion to her happiness would scarcely requite her single-minded, feminine, and unvarying truth.

"You're a bit chilled, eh?" "Christ requite you!

Then the woman said: "Christ requite thee, dear little father!

I cannot requite the earl's attachmentand shall die if he continues his pursuit.

Thus quickly all my pleasures end; But I'll remember, when I pray, My kind physician and his friend: And those sad hours you deign to spend With me, I shall requite them all.

But safe, in deserts, from the applause of men, Would die unheard-of, as we lived unseen. 'Tis all we beg thee, to conceal from sight Those acts of goodness, which themselves requite.

Benedick, love on; I will requite you."

50 At last, grown wanton, he presumed to write, Traduced two kings, their kindness to requite; One made the doctor, and one dubb'd the knight.

My Muse shall have instructions to requite you Even an hundredfold.

To her I chiefly owe my preservation: I called her Glumdalclitch, or Little Nurse, and I heartily wish it was in my power to requite her care and affection as she deserves, instead of being, as I have reason to fear, the innocent unhappy instrument of her disgrace.

They address the images by the names of those whom they suppose them to represent, bidding them to requite their affection.

Which request of ours we do most instantly desire to be taken in good part of your maiestie, and so great a benefit towards vs and our men, we shall endeuor by diligence to requite when time shal serue thereunto.

* * * * At last, after some noise, the Head spake these two words: 'Time is.' Miles, hearing it to speak no more, thought his master would be angry if he waked him for that, and therefore he let them both sleep and began to mock the Head in this manner: 'Thou Brazen-faced Head, hath my master took all this pains about thee and now dost thou requite him with two words, "Time is"?' * * *

Requite, repay, retaliate, satisfy.