In Ireland have I seen this stubborn CadeOppose himself against a troop of kerns,And fought so long till that his thighs with dartsWere almost like a sharp-quill'd porpentine;
1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene i]