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1573.  Gascoigne, Hearbes, Wks. 1907, I. 327. The brall Which raging youth … Did whilome breede in mine unmellowed brayne.

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1591.  Lyly, Endym., III. i. Whose vnmellowed conceits promise rype counsell.

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1607.  Rowlands, Fam. Hist., 7. In Nature’s green unmellowed years Cupid tormenteth Guy.

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1743.  Francis, trans. Hor., Odes, II. v. 12. The crude, unmellow’d grape.

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1781.  Cowper, Truth, 492. If the youth, unmellow’d yet by time, Bore on his branch … Fruits of a blighted size.

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1829.  Lytton, Devereux, III. v. These rare scents that make an Araby of this unmellowed clime.

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1841.  Gresley, For. Arden, xv. 167. They drew nearer to the ruins, unmellowed by age.

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