1658, Anonymous, given as "W. M.",The Compleat Cook[1]:
[…] take a pint of Hippocras,halfe a pound of sweet butter, two or three Nutmeg, little Vinegar, poure it into the Pye in the Oven and let it lye and soake an hour, then take it out, and when it is cold stop the vent hole.
2004 June 4, Harold Henderson, “The Consumer Revolution”, inChicago Reader[2]:
In 1721 in Berwick, Maine, peddler William Moore sold Daniel Goodwin "a yard and ahalfe of Stuff for handcarchiefs,"[…].
1594, Christopher Marlowe,The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage[3]:
Frighted with this confused noyse, I rose, And looking from a turret, might behold Yong infants swimming in their parents bloud, Headles carkasses piled vp in heapes, Virginshalfe dead dragged by their golden haire,[…].
