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For life thence I was not to him a whit loather, A berne in his burgs than his bairns were, or each one, Herebeald, or H�thcyn, or Hygelac mine.

From The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats by Anonymous

In North Wilts the milkmayds sing as shrill and cleare as any swallow sitting on a berne:-         "So lowdly she did yerne, Like any swallow sitting on a berne."

From The Natural History of Wiltshire by Aubrey, John

In both ballads a boy or "berne" speaks up.

From Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy by Lang, Andrew

He takth what eny man wol yive, Bot whil he hath o day to live, He wol nothing rewarde ayein; He gruccheth forto yive o grein, Wher he hath take a berne full.

From Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins by Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell)

Write in Civile this I finde: Thogh it be noght the houndes kinde To ete chaf, yit wol he werne An Oxe which comth to the berne, Therof to taken eny fode.

From Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins by Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell)