2 Verbs to Use for the Word bedward

Oh, I amuse them; they dress me in Ruyven's clothes and have me to winelacking a tenor voice for their songsand at first, long ago, their wine made me stupid, and they found rare sport in baiting me; but now they tumble, one by one, ere the wine's fire touches my face, and father swears there is no man in County Tryon can keep our company o' nights and show a steady pair of legs like mine to bear him bedwards.

"These graves," quoth he, "when life's brief oil is spent, When the dark night comes, and they're sinking bedwards, I mean for Castles, Oliver, and Edwards.

2 Verbs to Use for the Word  bedward