I have been thinking, George, of changing our travelling dreſſes in the morning. I am grown confoundedly aſhamed of mine.

Than he sayd, 'I wysshe them here on this talbe.' he had no sooner made his wysshe but they were set on the table / wherof all such as were there had gret meruayle.

Marge Simpson: Con: you're endangering your health. Homer Simpson: Pro: I'm drought and famine resistant.

1957: whose floor was of tamped earth — Lawrence Durrell, Justine, p.85 (Faber)