He tells me that that made them so mad to-day first was, several letters in the House about the Fanatickes, in several places, coming in great bodies, and turning people out of the churches, and there preaching themselves, and pulling the surplice over the Parsons' heads: this was confirmed from several places; which makes them stark mad, especially the hectors and Bravadoes of the House, who shew all the zeal on this occasion.
"Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright"
Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke
But let us still resist him; for notwithstanding all his Bravadoes, he promoteth the fool, and none else.
"The Works of John Bunyan Volume 3"
John Bunyan
Why, just now, for the twentieth time, I asked his Majesty whether he would still permit all those Bravadoes which the gentlemen of the reformed religion indulge in, since their admiral was wounded.
"Marguerite de Valois"
Alexandre Dumas