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But wait ye make not many questions with her nor her men, but say ye are diseased, and so hie you to bed, and rise not on the morn till I come to you, for the castle of Tintagil is but ten miles hence; so this was done as they devised.†
Book 1

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So like as Merlin devised it was done.†
Book 1 *
So it was done as Merlin had devised, and they carried the king forth in an horse-litter with a great host towards his enemies.†
Book 1
But this Claudas is so mighty of goods whereof he getteth good knights, that he putteth these two kings most part to the worse; wherefore this is my counsel, that our king and sovereign lord send unto the kings Ban and Bors by two trusty knights with letters well devised, that an they will come and see King Arthur and his court, and so help him in his wars, that he will be sworn unto them to help them in their wars against King Claudas.†
Book 1
All the three kings and the whole barons said that Merlin said passingly well, and it was done anon as Merlin had devised.†
Book 1
Then King Lot made great dole for his damages and his fellows, and said unto the ten kings, But if ye will do as I devise we shall be slain and destroyed; let me have the King with the Hundred Knights, and King Agwisance, and King Idres, and the Duke of Cambenet, and we five kings will have fifteen thousand men of arms with us, and we will go apart while ye six kings hold medley with twelve thousand; an we see that ye have foughten with them long, then will we come on fiercely, and else shall we never match them, said King Lot, but by this mean.†
Book 1

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So they departed as they here devised, and six kings made their party strong against Arthur, and made great war long.†
Book 1

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It is well said, quoth Arthur, and as thou hast devised, so shall it be done.†
Book 1
And in all haste the king let ordain for the marriage and the coronation in the most honourable wise that could be devised.†
Book 3
Then the king let rear and devise in the same place whereat the battle was done a fair abbey, and endowed it with great livelihood, and let it call the Abbey of La Beale Adventure.†
Book 4

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This is well devised, said King Arthur, and right so shall it be.†
Book 4

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For ye shall understand King Arthur is the man in the world that she most hateth, because he is most of worship and of prowess of any of her blood; also she loveth me out of measure as paramour, and I her again; and if she might bring about to slay Arthur by her crafts, she would slay her husband King Uriens lightly, and then had she me devised to be king in this land, and so to reign, and she to be my queen; but that is now done, said Accolon, for I am sure of my death.†
Book 4
Well, said Sir Gawaine, all this shall I amend an ye will do as I shall devise: I will have your horse and your armour, and so will I ride unto her castle and tell her that I have slain you, and so shall I come within her to cause her to cherish me, and then shall I do my true part that ye shall not fail to have the love of her.†
Book 4

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I assent, said the king, like as ye have devised, and at Christmas there to be crowned, and to hold my Round Table with my knights as me liketh.†
Book 5

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And ever there be about him five hundred knights and gentlemen of arms, and there be all manner of games that any gentleman can devise.†
Book 7

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Notwithstanding, Sir Tristram would not refuse the message for no danger nor peril that might fall, for the pleasure of his uncle, but to go he made him ready in the most goodliest wise that might be devised.†
Book 8

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And to make short tale, Sir Tristram and Sir Dinadan smote them down both, and so they entered into the castle and had good cheer as they could think or devise.†
Book 9

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So when his council was come they devised and cast many perils of the strength of their enemies.†
Book 10

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Then Sir Tristram let devise the battle in what manner that it should be.†
Book 10

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And as they devised it so it was done.†
Book 10

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And thus Arthur devised, that all the knights of this land, and of Cornwall, and of North Wales, should joust against all these countries, Ireland, Scotland, and the remnant of Wales, and the country of Gore, and Surluse, and of Listinoise, and they of Northumberland, and all they that held lands of Arthur on this half the sea.†
Book 10
Now turn we unto Sir Tristram and to La Beale Isoud, how they made great joy daily together with all manner of mirths that they could devise; and every day Sir Tristram would go ride a-hunting, for Sir Tristram was that time called the best chaser of the world, and the noblest blower of an horn of all manner of measures; for as books report, of Sir Tristram came all the good terms of venery and hunting, and all the sizes and measures of blowing of an horn; and of him we had first all the terms of hawking, and which were beasts of chase and beasts of venery, and which were vermins, and all the blasts that long to all manner of games.†
Book 10

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And then he devised how it should be; and Sir Tristram devised to send his two pavilions to set them fast by the well of Lonazep, and therein shall be the queen La Beale Isoud.†
Book 10

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And then he devised how it should be; and Sir Tristram devised to send his two pavilions to set them fast by the well of Lonazep, and therein shall be the queen La Beale Isoud.†
Book 10
Then on the morn Sir Tristram, Bleoberis, and Sir Ector de Maris, Sir Gareth, Sir Dinadan, what by water and what by land, they brought La Beale Isoud unto Joyous Gard, and there reposed them a seven night, and made all the mirths and disports that they could devise.†
Book 10

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THEN went Dame Elaine unto Sir Launcelot, and told him all how her father had devised for him and her.†
Book 12

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All this King Solomon did let make as she devised, both the ship and all the remnant.†
Book 17
When Solomon saw this, he said to his wife: Ye have done marvellously, for though all the world were here right now, he could not devise wherefore all this was made, but Our Lord Himself; and thou that hast done it wottest not what it shall betoken.†
Book 17

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And Percivale took it, and found therein a writ and so he read it, and devised the manner of the spindles and of the ship, whence it came, and by whom it was made.†
Book 17

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And as Launcelot devised her, he espied in her right hand a writ, the which he read, the which told him all the adventures that ye have heard to-fore, and of what lineage she was come.†
Book 17
And when the letter was written word by word like as she devised, then she prayed her father that she might be watched until she were dead.†
Book 18
So her father granted it her faithfully, all things should be done like as she had devised.†
Book 18
Sir, said Sir Launcelot, that shall be done as I can best devise.†
Book 18

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So when the day was come Sir Launcelot let devise that he was arrayed, and Sir Lavaine, and their horses, as though they had been Saracens; and so they departed and came nigh to the field.†
Book 18
Madam, said Sir Meliagrance, all this that is amiss on my part shall be amended right as yourself will devise, and wholly I put me in your grace.†
Book 19
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(1) (devise as in: devise a plan)
to come up with a way of doing something -- typically a creative idea or plan
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
In law, devise can also reference a gift given in a will (or the act of bequeathing such a gift).

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