breme

Tare owte theyre sable harte bie ryghtefulle breme [101];

The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

And that thie rede [36] bee efte borne downe bie breme [37].

The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

Ich granti wel þat he us deme. vor þeȝ he were wile breme.

Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

Make everych acte, alyche theyr soules, be breme, 425

The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

To ken [7] syke [8] large a flete, syke fyne, syke breme [9].

The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

Cf. "Arcite and Palamon, That foughten _breme_, as it were bores two."

Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

Bre {n} na is a breme, & it is a fisshe of the riuer/& whan he seeth the pyke that wyll take hym/than he sinketh to the botom of {th} e wat {er} & maketh it so trobelous that the pyke can nat se hym.

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

¶ Fresshe sturgyon, breme, perche in gelly, a Ioll of samon, sturgyon, and welkes; apples & peres rosted with suger candy.

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

An 'says I-- for I wantit to ken whether I was sic a breme-buss (broom-bush) as I used to be -- says I, "Hoo are ye, Jock Mitchell?"

Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

His wife, or concubine, elicited from him the secret, that his art could ward off any danger except the poison -. ous qualities of broth, made of the flesh of a breme sow.

The lay of the last minstrel, a poem. With Ballads and lyrical pieces Walter Scott 1812