c. 1430. Lydg., Story Thebes, III. K iiij. They on Grekes, enuyously gan shoute And of despyte, and grete enuyte Bad hem foles, gone home to her contre.
1480. Caxton, Chron. Eng., III. (1520), 25/2. Antigonus broder unto the kynge was slayne thrugh the envyte of the quene.
a. 1569. Sqr. Low Degree, 392, in Hazl., E. P. P., II. 38. For yf it may be founde in thee, That thou them [de]fame for enuyte.]
