"Pas de bruit," whispered a voice through the gloom.
"The Soul of the War"
Philip Gibbs
Now the king had a brother, whom he had imprisoned in that pit of old time, and he had died there; but the folk of the realm deemed him still alive, and when his durance grew long, the courtiers of the king used to talk of this and of the tyranny of their liege Lord, and the bruit spread abroad that the sovran was a tyrant, so they fell upon him one day and slew him.
"Supplemental Nights, Volume 1"
Richard F. Burton
Randolph, though an egregious gossip, says of the Four Maries, "they are all good," but Knox writes that "the ballads of that age" did witness to the "bruit" or reputation of these maidens.
"John Knox and the Reformation"
Andrew Lang