Her noble deeds, ne her right course for ought forsooke.
Spenser, Fairy Queen, iii. 4, 44.
Forasmuch as many brooked divers and many laudable ceremonies and rites heretofore used and accustomed in the Church of England, not yet abrogated by the king’s authority, his Majesty charged and commanded all his subjects to observe and keep them.—Strype, Memorials of Archbishop Cranmer, vol. i. p. 412.
And, as a German writer well observes, the French kings might well brook that title of Christianissimi from that admirable exploit of Carolus Martellus, the next means under God’s providence that other parts of Europe had not Saracen tyrants instead of Christian princes.—Jackson, The Eternal Truth of Scriptures, b. i. c. 26.
Let us bruik the present hour,
Let us pou’ the fleeting flouir,
Youthheid is love’s holiday,
Let us use it, when we may.
Pinkerton, Scotch Comic Ballads, p. 149.
[Bullion. This word is now generally used in the sense of metal, specially precious metal in the mass: ‘gold or silver in the lump, as distinguished from coin or manufactured articles, also applied to coined or manufactured gold or silver when considered simply with reference to its value as raw material,’ N.E.D. The word was once frequently used of gold or silver below the standard purity. Bullion has no connexion etymologically either with Fr. billon or with Lat. bulla; it appears to be identical with Fr. bouillon, Late Lat. bullionem, a boiling, hence, a melting, a melted mass of metal. The Fr. billon, debased metal, meant originally mass, having the same stem as billet (of wood). No doubt the word billon has influenced the sense of the English bullion.]