1966, Garcilaso de la Vega, H. V. Livermore, Karen Spalding, Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru (Abridged), Hackett Publishing (ISBN 9781603849289), page 104
After delivering the reply he ordered the annalists, who have charge of the knots, to take note of it and include it in their tradition. By now the Spaniards, who were unable to brook the length of the discourse, had left their places and fallen on the Indians
The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water.
(w) (1564-1616)
empties itself, as doth an inland brook / into the main of waters
(RQ:RJfrs AmtrPqr)
But then I had the massive flintlock by me for protection. ¶(..)The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook,(nb..).