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1561. Norton & Sackv., Gorboduc, II. ii. Great is the daunger of vnmaistred might.
1593. Sidney’s Arcadia, IV. Wks. 1922, II. 107. The unmastred vertu of Pyrocles.
1602. Shaks., Ham., I. iii. 32. If with too credent eare you list his Songs;… or your chast Treasure open To his vnmastred importunity.
1700. Dryden, Sp. Ajax, etc., 595. He … cannot his unmaster’d Grief sustain, But yields to Rage.
1793. Minstrel, II. 194 To appropriate to her own use these evidently unmastered treasures.
1800. Coleridge, Piccolom., IV. vii. Nature…, like the emancipated force of fire, Unmastered scorches … Their fine-spun webs.
1870. Bryant, Iliad, V. I. 145. Lest, taking flight, they range Unmastered when they hear thy voice no more.
