1554-1586.
The Defense of Poesy.
He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner.
I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglass, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet.
Arcadia. Book i.
There is no man suddenly either excellently good, or extremely evil.
They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.