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1553. Ascham, Rept. Germany, 1. If proper and naturall wordes, in well ioyned sentences do lyuely expresse the matter.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, II. xvii. (1912), 260. Alas, how painefull a thing it is to a devided minde to make a wel-joyned answere?
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, XIII. 626. As through fallow fields, Blacke Oxen draw a well-ioyn’d plough. Ibid. (1615), Odyss., XXI. 197. Thus, below A well-ioyn’d boord he laide it.
1645. Milton, Tetrach., 38. The intolerable yoake of a never well joyn’d wedlocke.
