beseke

Ðat ich wile þat ðu wel be iwarned. {ȝ} if godd ðe ȝifð þese swete teares þat non win in ðare world nis swa swete. ⁊ alswa alswa man to michel mai drinken of ðare wine alswa mai ðe mann to michel wepen. þeih hie swete bien. ⁊ for ði þe is god  {105} þ̵ þu beseke at gode one mihte. ðe hatte _discrecio_. þat is [f.

Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

1.4.12: And willes me that my mortall foe I doe beseke of grace:

"Songes and Sonettes written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other" 1557