betide

Often used in a prediction (chiefly in woe betide) or a wish: to happen to (someone or something); to befall.

Why wayle we then? why weary we the Gods with playnts, / As if ſome euill were to her betight? / She raignes a goddeſſe now emong the ſaintes, / That whilome was the ſaynt of ſhepheardes light: / And is enſtalled nowe in heauens hight.

Why, how now, countrymen! Why flock you thus to me in multitudes? What accident's betided to the Jews?

Chiefly in the third person: to happen; to take place; to bechance, to befall.

If he were dead what would betide of me.

[W]ipe thou thine eyes, haue comfort, / The direfull ſpectacle of the wracke which touch'd / The very vertue of compaſſion in thee: / I haue with ſuch prouiſion in mine Art / So ſafely ordered, that there is no ſoule / No not ſo much perdition as an hayre / Betid to any creature in the veſſel / Which thou heardſt cry, which thou ſaw'ſt ſinke: […]