Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Conveyers

Thieves. (See above.)

“Bolingbroke. `Go, some of you, convey him to the Tower.'”

Rich. II. 

`O, good! “Convey.” Conveyers are ye all,
That rise thus nimbly by a true king's fall.'

Shakespeare: Richard II., iv. 4.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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