Citations:the coast is clear

English citations of the coast is clear

• 1655, Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia‎^[1], page 55:

  And with that word going out, and seeing that the coast was clear, Zelmane dismissed Musidorus

• 1692, John Dryden, “Prologue”, in Cleomenes; or, the Spartan Hero:

  I think, or hope, at least the coast is clear; That none but men of wit and sense are here;