1572. J. Jones, Bathes Buckstone, 1 b. It should not onely bee of another collour marly yellow, or swarty greene.
1582. Stanyhurst, Æneis, III. (Arb.), 72. With black weede the altar is hanged, With tree swartye Cipers.
1600. Shaks., Tit. A., II. iii. 72 (Qo.). Your swartie [Folios swarth] Cymerion.
1609. Healey, Discov. New World, I. xii. 55. A stonie, swartie, barren, Grass-lesse, sandie soyle.
1613–6. W. Browne, Brit. Past., I. v. The swarty Smith spits in his Buckhorne fist.
1656. Heylin, Surv. France, 205. A beard … black and swarty.
1888. Doughty, Trav. Arabia Deserta, II. 69. Before us appeared that great craggy blackness—the Harra, and thereupon certain swarty hills and crests.
Comb. 1635. R. N., trans. Camden’s Hist. Eliz., II. 189. Frobisher … under the Latitude of 63 degrees … found men … swarty coloured.
