var. NOLENS VOLENS. Obs.
1602. W. Watson, Quodlibets, 58. Yet must they keepe such a … strait watch … continually, as volens nolens their will must not be theirs, but their superiors.
1620. Shelton, Quix., II. lx. 404. If I should whip Sancho, volens nolens.
1634. W. Wood, New Eng. Prosp. (1865), 59. A wronged servant shall have right volens nolens from his injurious master.
