c.1620 Beaumont & Fletcher Little French Lawyer III iv: Geld me, For ’tis not fit I should be man againe, I am an Asse, a Dog. 1633 Rowley A Match at Midnight I i: A dogge, a very dog, there is more mercy in a paire of unbrib’d Bailiffes. 1657 Marlowe Lascivious Queen ...