ppl. a. Well written.
1598. Marston, Sco. Villanie, H 4. His huge long scraped stock Of well penn’d playes.
1603. J. Davies (Heref.), Microcosm. (Grosart), 81/2. A wel-pen’d Poem.
1622. Fletcher, Beggars’ Bush, I. ii. He will not … lend Upon the assurance of a well-pen’d Letter.
1757. [see PENNED ppl. a.2 1].
1821. Scott, Kenilw., xxx. The stranger then, in a well-penned speech, announced herself as that famous Lady of the Lake.
