undertake

ruveta

ryhtyä

luvata

sitoutua puhekieltä To take upon oneself; to start, to embark on (a specific task etc.).
(w) (1608-1674)

To second, or oppose, or undertake / The perilous attempt.

(ux)

I'll undertake to land them on our coast.

"I have now aspyed one knyght," he seyde, "that woll play hys play at the justys, I undirtake."

And those two counties I will undertake / Your grace shall well and quietly enjoiy.

And he was not right fat, I undertake.

I dare undertake they will not lose their labour.

there came fourty knyghtes to sire Darras /(..)/ and they wold haue slayne sire Tristram and his two felawes / but sire Darras wold not suffre that but kepte them in pryson /(..)/ So sire Tristram endured there grete payne / for sekenesse had vndertake hym / and that is the grettest payne a prysoner maye haue

(rfquotek)

It is not fit your lordship should undertake every companion that you give offence to.

Keep well those that ye undertake.

who undertakes you to your end