commaes

Some other ſmal eſcapes, as in the Greeke miſtaking of an accent or ſpirit, an ο for ω, an ε for an η or contrary; in the Latin an u for an n, the multitude or want the multitude or want of commaes, the darke printing and ſometime leauing out of a letter, as euident to euery one we haue not regarded.

1591, Henry Sauile, The Ende of Nero and Beginning of Galba. Fower Bookes of the Histories of Cornelius Tacitus. The Life of Agricola., Oxford, Oxon: […] Ioseph Barnes for Richard Wright

For other errors as the miſplacing of commaes, colons, and periods (which as they are in euerie page obuious, ſo many times they inuert the ſence) I referre to your diſcretion (iudicious gentle-men) whoſe lenity may ſooner ſupply them, then all my induſtrie can portray them.

1615, μισοσυκος [pseudonym; Richard Brathwaite], A Strappado for the Diuell. Epigrams and Satyres Alluding to the Time, with Diuers Measures of No Lesse Delight., Boston, Lincs: […] Robert Roberts, […], published 1878

The Poet at the Lawyer layes on loads, / Of Dactiles, Spondees, Annagrams and Oades. Of Satyres, Epigrams, Apoſtrophies. Of Stops, of Commaes, of Parentheſis.

1630, Iohn Taylor, All the Workes of Iohn Taylor, the Water Poet, Being 63 in Number, Collected into One Volum by the Author with Sundry New Additions, Corrected, Reuised, and Newly Imprinted, page 29, column 1

Now the words of the Angell conſiſts either of one comma, here is the minde which hath underſtanding, to wit, hid: for, herein is a myſticall ſenſe that cannot be ſearched out by the mind of man: Or of two commaes, or clauſes, One being, Here is wiſedome: the other, he that hath wiſedome, that is, let him underſtand.

1644, David Pareus, translated by Elias Arnold, A Commentary upon the Divine Revelation of the Apostle and Evangelist Iohn, Amsterdam: […] C. P., page 419