1607, George Wilkins, The Miseries of Inforst Mariage[1]
Your father was my good Benefactor and gave me a house whilst I liue to put my head in: for I would be loth then to see his onely daughter, for want of meanes, turne punk, I have a drift to keepe you honest.
1660, James Howell, Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionarypage 77
Buy not a lame Mule, nor marry a Punk in hope to cure either. This proverb is glossed in Spanish: Ni compres mula coxa, ni cases puta pensando de curarlas.
1673, Thomas Shadwell, Epsom-Well, a Comedy, acted at the Duke's Theatrepage 68
Nay, your Mistress, forsooth, has turn'd from Bawd to Punk, from Punk to Bawd, as often as they say Thames Water will stink and grow sweet again at Sea.
1678, Thomas Duffett, Psyche Debauch'd, a Comedy: As it was Acted at the Theatre-Royal:
When a house is on fire, the Lame, Sickly, and Lazy, frisk as if they had a swarm of Hornets about them. Green sickness Girle can lift huge trunck, But Blade with Loves flame scorch'd and shrunk; Will do much more for charming Punk.
2008, Nonglak Rojanasaeng, Problems and prospects of adaptive co-management of fishery and coastal resources in […] Southern Thailand, page 152:
Their major earnings came from making and selling punk. (a footnote then defines 'punk' as:) an oily liquid extracted from a particular tree species used for tinder, usually mixed with solid substance to form sticks before use
