1588, William Shakespeare, edited by Edmond Malone, Love's Labour’s Lost[1], London: H. Baldwin, page 395:
Moth. Ba, moſt ſilly ſheep, with a horn:—You hear his learning. Hol.Quis, Quis, thou conſonant ? Moth. The third of the five vowels, if you repeat them ; or the fifth, if I. Hol. I will repeat them ; a e, i,— Moth. The ſheep : the other two concludes it ; o, u.
1862, Thomas Hardy, edited by Richard Little Purdy and Michael Millgate, The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy[2], 18th edition, Clarendon Press, →ISBN, retrieved 1978, page 2:
