1586, Charles Kingsley, Andromeda and Other Poems:
In the New Forest, 1847, THE OUTLAW Oh, I wadna be a yeoman, mither, to follow my father's trade, To bow my back in miry banks, at pleugh and hoe and spade.
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1780, Robert Burns, Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns:
--O Tibbie, I hae seen the day, Ye wadna been sae shy; For laik o' gear ye lightly me, But, trowth, I care na by.
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1832, Various, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 20,:
I would fain carry it mysel', but they wadna let me."