Crossword-Solution: BEAUSIRE 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Thirteen-year-old Edith laughed merrily enough at her sister’s perplexity, and said gayly as the lad turned questioningly to her: “Sure, then, beausire, ‘t is plain to see that you are Southron-born and know not the complexion of a Scottish mist.

His flushed face grew still more red, and, turning away from the Saxon prince, he demanded: “Why make you this charge, Sir Ordgar? “Because of its truth, beausire,” said the faithless knight.

Wherefore, as I said now, y-wis, Jupiter well considers this; And also, beausire,* other things; *good sir That is, that thou hast no tidings Of Love’s folk, if they be glad, Nor of naught elles that God made; And not only from far country That no tidings come to thee, But of thy very neighebours, That dwellen almost at thy doors, Thou hearest neither that nor this.

Roland invited her to join his fishing expeditions, nor had he ever taken his wife; for he liked to put off before daybreak, with his ally, Captain Beausire, a master mariner retired, whom he had first met on the quay at high tides and with whom he had struck up an intimacy, and the old sailor Papagris, known as Jean Bart, in whose charge the boat was left.

Captain Beausire, a funny little man who had become quite round by dint of being rolled about at sea, and whose ideas also seemed to have been worn round, like the pebbles of a beach, while he laughed with his throat full of _r_’s, looked upon life as a capital thing, in which everything that might turn up was good to take.