He will Bestead you.
"The Seven Plays in English Verse"
Sophocles
We are hungry and faint, and will only shoot the deer for food, for we are hard Bestead and in great danger."
"Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race"
Maud Isabel Ebbutt
We are so limited that the very idea of such an all-embracing consciousness staggers and confounds us; yet perhaps a gnat might be as hard Bestead if he tried to measure the consciousness of Pythagoras.
"Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries"
Annie Besant