brok, pl. brokkes (A.S.) [119], an animal of the badger kind
brol (A.S.) [55], [494], [495], a child, brat. Reliquiæ Antiquæ, ii, 177:—
Whan hi commith to the world, hi doth ham silf sum gode,
Al bot the wrech brol that is of Adamis blode.
brood (A.S.) broad
brotel (A.S.) [153], weak, brittle, unsteady
†brothels (A.S.) [496], wretches, men of bad life. In the Coventry Mysteries (Ed. Halliwell, p. 308), the term is applied to the damned who suffer punishment in hell:—
In bras and in bronston the brethellys be brent,
That wene in this werd my wyl for to werke.
In another play in the same collection, p. 217, it is applied to the woman taken in adultery:—