1593. Passionate Morrice (1876), 82. Those I suspected to be wenchers.
a. 1625. Fletcher, Noble Gent., I. i. I am a whoremaster, And such a one as dare be … pointed at to be a noble wencher.
a. 1654. Selden, Table Talk, Clergy, ¶ 5. Like the Fellow that was a great Wentcher.
1667. Pepys, Diary, 29 July. My cozen Roger told us … that the Archbishop of Canterbury, that now is, do keep a wench, and that he is as very a wencher as can be.
1701. Grew, Cosm. Sacra, II. vii. 76. He must be … no Gamester, Wencher, Fopp.
1712. Steele, Spect., No. 274, ¶ 1. Impotent Wenchers.
