Citations:Westward Ho!
English citations of Westward Ho!
| 1593 | c. 1601—1602, 1605 | ||||||
| ME « | 15th c. | 16th c. | 17th c. | 18th c. | 19th c. | 20th c. | 21st c. |
- 1593 — George Peele. The Famous Chronicle of King Edward the First.[1]
- [stage direction] Make a noise, Westward how.
- Queene. Woman what noise is this I hear?
- Potters wife. It is the Watermen that cals for passengers to goe Westward now.
- c. 1601—1602 — William Shakespeare. Twelfth Night.[1]
- Then Westward-hoe: Grace and good disposition attend your Ladyship.
- 2009 — Karen Ordahl Kupperman. The Jamestown Project.[2]
- The phrases "westward ho!" and "eastward ho!" [used in Chapman, Jonson, and Marston's 1605 play Eastward Hoe] were the cries of the watermen who provided taxi service by boat on the River Thames.
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