And the olde knyght seyde unto the yonge knyght, ‘Sir, swith me.’
1590, (w), (w), III.iv:
though oft looking backward, well she vewd, / Her selfe freed from that foster insolent, / And that it was a knight, which now her sewd, / Yet she no lesse the knight feard, then that villein rude.
puhekieltä To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action.