harbor

The neighborhood is a well-known harbor for petty thieves.

[T]here aboutes dwelt greate multitudes of people half wilde, hiding thẽſelues in caues of the grounde, of ſmall ſtature, and very fearefull, for as ſoone as they ſawe them they fled into their holes, and that there was a great riuer and very good harborough.

To ech of hem his tyme and his seson, / As thyn herberwe chaungeth lowe or heighe