–OK, fine, you’re Cut-and-run. And you? –I’m after him, your honor. –But what do they call you? –That’s what they call me, your honor: “I’m after him.” –And who calls you that, you rascal? –Good people have called me that, your honor. This world is not lack...
The OED dates ‘fun’ in any sense (the trick sense, first) back to 1699 and ‘excitement’ in any sense (something which causes something else to happen) to 1604, which would make the answer right but the explanation misleading. ‘Fon’ is earlier if it’s the same word, but if I...
and giue them an essence and being with the holy Patriarkes. 1697 J. Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. ii. (1702) 97 By Reading a Man does as it were Antedate his Life. c1850 Mrs. Browning Vis. Poets That rage Barbaric, ante~dates the age. ...