"I am your valet, 'tis true; your footman sometimes ... but you have always had the ascendant, I confess. When we were school-fellows, you made me carry your books, make your exercise, own your rogueries, and sometimes take a whipping for you. When we were fellow-'prentices, though I was your senior, you made me open the shop, clean my master's boots, cut last at dinner, and eat all the crusts. In your sins, too, I must own you still kept me under; you soared up to the mistress, while I was content with the maid."--Sir John Yanbrugh, _The Confederacy_, iii. 1 (1695). _Brass (Sampson)_, a knavish, servile attorney, affecting great sympathy with his clients, but in reality fleecing them without mercy. _Sally Brass_, Sampson's sister, and an exaggerated edition of her brother.--C. Dickens, _Old Curiosity Shop_ (1840). BRAVE (_The_), Alfonzo IV. of Portugal (1290-1357). _The Brave Fleming_, John Andrew van der Mersch (1734-1792). _The Bravest of the Brave_, Marshal Ney, _Le Brave des Braves_ (1769-1815). BRAY (_Mr._), a selfish, miserly old man, who dies suddenly of heart-disease, just in time to save his daughter from being sacrificed to Arthur Gride, a rich old miser. _Madeline Bray_, daughter of Mr. Bray, a loving, domestic, beautiful girl, who marries Nicholas Nickleby.--C. Dickens, _Nicholas Nickleby_ (1838). _Bray (Vicar of)_, supposed by some to be Simon Aleyn, who lived (says Fuller) "in the reigns of Henry VIII., Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth. In the first two reigns he was a _protestant_, in Mary's reign a _catholic_, and in Elizabeth's a _protestant_ again." No matter who was king, Simon Aleyn resolved to live and die "the vicar of Bray" (1540-1588). Others think the vicar was Simon Symonds, who (according to Ray) was an _independent_ in the protectorate, a _high churchman_ in the reign of Charles II., a _papist_ under James II., and a _moderate churchman_ in the reign of William III. Others again give the cap to one Pendleton. [Illustration] The well-known song was written by an officer in colonel Fuller's regiment, in the reign of George I., and seems to refer to some clergyman of no very distant date. BRAY´MORE (_Lady Caroline_), daughter of lord Fitz-Balaam. She was to have married Frank Rochdale, but hearing that her "intended" loved Mary Thornberry, she married the Hon. Tom Shuffleton.--G. Colman, jun., _John Bull_ (1805). BRAZEN (_Captain_), a kind of Bobadil. A boastful, tongue-doughty warrior, who pretends to know everybody; to have a liaison with every wealthy, pretty, or distinguished woman; and to have achieved in war the most amazing prodigies. BRAZEN HEAD. The first on record is one which Sylvester II. (_Gerbert_) possessed. It told him he would be pope, and not die till he had sung mass at Jerusalem. When pope he was stricken with his death-sickness while performing mass in a church called Jerusalem (999-1003). The next we hear of was made by Rob. Grosseteste (1175-1253).