v. 1241. renneth] i. e. runneth.
v. 1242. thefte and bryboury]—bryboury, i. e. pilfering. “Brybery or bribe. Manticulum.”—“Briboure. Manticulus.”—“Bryben. Latricino. Manticulo.” Prompt. Parv. ed. 1499. “I Bribe I pull I pyll, Ie bribe. Romant, ie derobbe, ... and ie emble ... He bribeth and he polleth and he gothe to worke: Il bribe,” &c. Palsgrave’s Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr., 1530. fol. clxxiiii. (Table of Verbes). “Bribors, Cometh of the French Bribeur, i. e. Mendicus: It seemeth in a legal Signification one that pilfereth other Mens Goods, as Cloaths out of a Window, or the like. Anno 28 Ed. 2. Stat. 1. cap. unico.” Cowel’s Law Dictionary, or The Interpreter, &c. augmented and improved, &c. ed. 1727. So again our author;
“Thefte also and pety brybery.”
v. 1370 of the present drama.
“Some haue a name for thefte and brybery.”
Garlande of Laurell, v. 183. vol. i. 369.
So too in The Hye Way to the Spyttell Hous, by Copland, n. d.;
“Brybe, and conuey, fro mayster and maystres.”
Utterson’s Early Pop. Poet. ii. 37.
and in Gentylnes and Nobylyte, n. d. (attributed without reason to Heywood);