"saiden" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1449, Margaret Paston, The Paston Letters",
          "text": "It was done me to weet that divers of the Lord Moleyns' men saiden if they might get me they should steal me and keep me within the castle, and then they said that ye should fetch me out; and they saiden it should been but a little heart-burning to you.",
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          "ref": "1614, William Browne, The Shepheards Pipe. The First Eclogue",
          "text": "Walking so, two men came him ageine, / And saiden thus: deare friend, we you pray",
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        "(obsolete) plural simple past of say"
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          "ref": "1449, Margaret Paston, The Paston Letters",
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