I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus,The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool,With open mouth swallowing a tailor’s news […]
c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene ii]