BREADIBUS, "_breadibus ... horsibus ... firibusque_" (M5,_b_), for bread, for horses, and for fires: a form, of dog-Latin which has always been, and still is, popular: see Misericordia. BRETHEL, "and thy own wife _brethel_, and take thee a leman" (M27,_a_), _brethell_ in original: the E.E. text editors suggest [_be_] _brethell_, that is, "if thy own wife be adulterous." This, however, seems beside the mark of the context, as why should Mankind be counselled to take a whore because his wife is unchaste? May _brethel_ not be a mis-script for A.S. _betelle_ (Halliwell)=to deceive? The meaning is then clear enough and the reading sound. On the other hand, I fail to find any authority for Halliwell's suggestion _betelle_=deceive, mislead, in either Anglo-Saxon or M.E. dictionaries, and the _r_ in the word brethel, perhaps precludes the adoption of betelle, _r_ being a highly characteristic letter. An alternative suggestion is that brethel is meant for _brechell_, from _breken_, to break, to injure, to vex, harass, torment, or destroy. "Breken" has among its derivatives "brac," "brake," "brek," "breche," "briche," "bruche," "bruchel." BRENNING, "hot and _brenning_" (N122,_a_), burning: also _brent_=burnt: see other volumes of this series. BREST, "till his belly _brest_" (M6,_a_), burst. BRIARS, "all in _briars_" (JE364,_a_), in trouble, misfortune, difficulty, doubt: see _Anon. Plays_, 2 Ser. (E.E.D.S.), 341,_a_. BRIM, "_brim_ and hot" (R241,_d_). Magnus glosses this "brimhot": but cf. _brim_=well-known, spoken of, public. "That thou dost hold me in disdain, Is _brim_ abroad, and made a gibe to all that keep this plain." Warner, _Albion's England_ (1586-1606). BROKLETS (R183,_d_), crumbs; of Scots _brock_. BRONT, "Titivilly would assay you a _bront_" (M39,_b_), brunt, charge. BROTHERN, "ye _brothern_" (M4,_b_), an old plural: cf. _childern_ still in dialect use. BUM VAY (R211,_d_), by my faith: original spelling _vei_: cf. Fr. _foi_. BUNTING, "how think you by this _bunting_" (R216,_d_), Mr. Magnus glosses this "swelling"; but is it not a term of endearment, perhaps with an eye on the diminutive form of _bunt_="a swelling part, an increasing cavity, the bagging of a fishing net or the like" (_Ency. Dict._). BURRS, "cleave together like _burrs_" (M193,_a_), proverbial. BY AND BY (_passim_), immediately. CAILES, "play not at _cailes_, cards, nor dice" (IP320,_b_), ninepins (Minshew). CALAIS, _arms of Calais_ (R217,_c_), a common oath of the period. The French citadel was lost to the English in 1558, after an occupation lasting for upwards of two centuries: see other volumes of this series.