"betime" meaning in English

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      "form": "betimes",
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        "To occur; betide."
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        "(intransitive) To occur; betide."
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      "ipa": "/bɪˈtaɪm/"
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          "ref": "1868, Mary Frances Cusack, An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800",
          "text": "Send succours (lords), and stop the rage betime, Before the wound do grow uncurable; For being green, there is great hope of help.\"",
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          "ref": "1907, Michael Drayton, Minor Poems of Michael Drayton",
          "text": "Her feature all as fresh aboue, As is the grasse that grows by Doue, as lyth as lasse of Kent: Her skin as soft as Lemster wooll, As white as snow on peakish hull, or Swanne that swims in Trent. 30 This mayden in a morne betime, Went forth when May was in her prime, to get sweet Cetywall, The hony-suckle, the Harlocke, The Lilly and the Lady-smocke, to decke her summer hall.",
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