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XXXVIII The second was as Almner of the place, His office was, the hungry for to feed, 335 And thristy give to drinke, a worke of grace: He feard not once him selfe to be in need, Ne car'd to hoord for those whom he did breede: The grace of God he layd up still in store, Which as a stocke he left unto his seede; 340 He had enough, what need him care for more?

1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, published 1921

Opinion, that great foole, makes fooles of all, And (once) I feard her till I met a minde Whose grave instructions philosophical), Toss'd it [is, F] like dust upon a march strong winde, He shall for ever my example be, And his embraced doctrine grow in me.

1609, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, The Faithful Shepherdess

We was feard for a long time that you was dead, but you're oal right now.

1897, Joseph Hocking, The Birthright