c.1583, Philip Sidney, Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh, An Apologie for Poetrie, published 1891, page 1:
Hee sayde, they were the Maisters of warre, and ornaments of peace: speedy goers, and strong abiders: triumphers both in Camps and Courts.
1592, H. Chettle, Kind-hartes Dreame, page 20:
[…]and fare at all tymes as harde as poor Mopos Cut did with his maiſters countreyman in Shorditch, till, by the force of his hinder heeles, he vtterly vndid two milch maydens, that had ſet vp a ſhoppe of Ale-drapery.
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene.[…], part I (books I–III), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 271: