borrowe

English

Verb

borrowe (third-person singular simple present borrowes, present participle borrowing, simple past and past participle borrowed)

  1. Obsolete spelling of borrow
    • 1594, Thomas Nash, The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton:
      One Isaac Medicus a bergomast was the man hee chose to make him a monster, who beeing a courtier and repairing to his house very often, neither for loue of him nor his wife, but onely with a drift to borrowe monie of a pawne of waxe and parchment, when he sawe his expectation deluded, and that Castaldo was too charie for him to close with, he priuily with purpose of reuenge, gaue out amongest his copesmates, that hee resorted to Castaldos house for no other end but to cuckolde him, & doubtfully he talkt that he had and he had not obtained his sute.
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