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1687. Dryden, Hind & P., I. 356. And sacrilege and she, A well-match’d pair, got graceless heresie.
1749. G. West, trans. Pindar, Olymp. Odes, v. (1753), I. 46. The well-match’d Coursers.
1807. Crabbe, Par. Reg., II. 358. Now to be wed a well-match’d couple came.
1837. Dickens, Pickw., liii. You are a well-matched pair of mean, rascally, pettifogging robbers.
1854. Poultry Chron., II. 310. All perhaps very good birds, but … not forming a well-matched pen.
