ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)

1

14[?].  Chaucer’s Troylus, IV. 1457 (Harl. MS.). It is ful hard to halten vnspied Bifor a crepul.

2

a. 1542.  Wyatt, ‘Take heed by time,’ v. To love unspied is but a hap; Therefore, take heed!

3

1561.  Norton & Sackv., Gorboduc, I. ii. 317. Traiterous corrupters of their pliant youthe Shall have unspied a muche more free accesse.

4

1624.  Quarles, Sion’s Elegies, I. xxii. Thinke you to flourish euer? and (vnspide) To shoot the flowers of your fruitlesse pride.

5

1667.  Milton, P. L., IV. 529. I must walk round This Garden, and no corner leave unspi’d.

6

a. 1740.  Tickell, Misc., Fatal Curiosity, 5. I … went prepared to pry… Resolv’d to find some fault before unspy’d.

7

1798.  in A. D. Coleridge, Eton in Fourties (1896), 14. When waving fresh each woolly wing, That … serv’d … to hold unknown, unspied, A loaf or pudding in.

8