1609,“Everie Woman in her Humor”, inA Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV.:
Then either for God's sake or thy Neighbors, or both, be smothe, and participate; ist not some underlayer, some she Cammell, that will beare as much of her belly as three beastes on their backes? some Lanthorne-maker?
2007 April 22,“Nonfiction Chronicle”, inNew York Times:
In 1585 the British artist John White accompanied a group of colonists to the North Carolina coast with instructions to "drawe to liefe all strange birdes, beastes, fishes, plantes."