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1596. Spenser, F. Q., V. iv. 37. With weapons well prepard.
1599. Shaks., Hen. V., I. ii. 234. Now are we well prepar’d to know the pleasure Of our faire Cosin Dolphin.
1603. Drayton, To K. Jas., A 3. Well-prepared pollicie.
1661. Boyle, Physiol. Ess. (1669), 67. A well prepar’d Medicine of duly refin’d Silver.
1703. Kelsey, Serm., 153. We bring not good, well-prepared Minds to them.
1868. Geo. Eliot, Ess. (1884), 325. He knows that for an article to be worth much … there must be well-prepared material.
