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1663. Cowley, Ode upon Verses of Ld. Broghills, i. I wrote, and wrote, but still I wrote in vain,… A rich, unwriting Hand, carry’d the Prize away.
1728. Pope, Dunc., M. Scriblerus. A deluge of Authors covered the land: Whereby … the peace of the honest unwriting subject was daily molested.
1828–32. Webster, s.v., An unwriting citizen.
