"behappen" meaning in English

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          "text": "\"But why have ye,\" said Artegall, \"forborne\nYour owne good shield in daungerous dismay?\nThat is the greatest shame and foulest scorne,\nWhich unto any knight behappen may.\nTo loose the badge that should his deedes display.\"",
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          "text": "And where now might Timothy Tipkin sifflicate that it may behappen to be for to come from? Pummel thy pumkin, and a tell me that, Peter Grievous. Where, but out of my pouche, Gaby? That is, I first havin and holdin the wherewithalls, and the whys, and the wherefores. Do you take me now? So that forsooth, some folks may behappen to cry peccavi.",
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        "To happen to, to befall."
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        "(transitive, obsolete) To happen to, to befall."
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