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c1300 St. Swithun (Harl.) l. 56 in F. J. Furnivall Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 44 Contrai men to chepinge come mid moche gode.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 104 Concerning Wooddes, what needefullest are for our countreymen to plant.

1608 (title) The great frost... A familiar talk between a countryman and a citizen.

1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ 222 The Trees..and Fields are now naked, unless cloathed in white, whilest the Countrey-man sits at home, and enjoyes the Fruit of his past labours.

1730 T. Fuller Exanthematologia 51 I have seen Countrymen, at the Death of a Buck, drink a good large Draught of his warm, and, as yet, live Blood, for the Cure of a Jaundice.

1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc ii. 25 Strangers, your fare is homely..But such it is as we poor countrymen Earn with our toil.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 616 Monmouth and his friends disguised themselves as countrymen.

1881 Harper's Mag. Dec. 47/2 Their driver, a countryman..held on with a tight grip of his horses.

1910 O. Jones & M. Woodward Gamekeeper’s Note-bk. 107 Countrymen will speak of the cock sparrow-hawk as the little blue hawk, as though it were a separate variety.

1973 D. Bagnall-Oakeley in J. Kett Tha's Rum'un, Bor! Foreword It is easy to discern that John Kett's poems are the work of a Norfolkman who is also a countryman through and through.

2010 J. O'Connor Ghost Light (2011) iii. 44 She saw him near the General Post Office in Sackville Street,..his battered tweed tam and drover's muddy boots giving him the appearance of a countryman lost.

c1300 St. Kenelm (Harl.) 291 in F. J. Furnivall Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 55 Þe contrai men þer-biside..Ouertrowede wel whar hit lay.

c1450 tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Bodl. Add.) i. l. 31 The contreemen coloured well ichone.

?1536 R. Copland Hye Way to Spyttell Hous sig. B iii Yf ony axe what contrey men they be And lyke your maystershyp of the north all thre Or of Chesshyre or elles nygh Cornewale.

?1577 F. T. Debate Pride & Lowlines sig. Bi^v The other sayth he is this countreyman.

1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxix. 212 Being borne a countryman of such a countrey.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. xliii. 509 The bay tree..a countrieman in euery coast and quarter.

1616 J. Cotta Triall Witch-craft vii. 49 A Wisard foretold Duke Biron..should dye by the backe blow of a Burguignon, who afterward proued his Executioner, being that Countrey man.

1661 tr. Erasmus Life Colet in tr. J. Colet Serm. Conform. & Reform. 69 A disease which seized no countrey-men but English.

1681 Arraignm.,Tryal & Condemnation S. Colledge 67 Mr. Ser. Holl. What Countreyman are you, Sir? Mr. Zeal. Somersetshire.

1707 J. Dunton Athenian Sport 332/2 'Tis no new Thing to the West Countrymen, to fay, the Duke of Monmouth is yet alive.

1797 R. Southey Lett. from Spain xiv. 246 Turning round to Manuel, he asked him what countryman he was.

1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. II. 57 When he knew what countryman I was, he made many inquiries respecting Salamanca.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits iv. 70 Other countrymen look slight and undersized beside them.

1903 J. Conrad & F. M. Hueffer Romance (1904) v. iv. 414 He asked me what countryman I was, and if I was an American.

2012 V. Messina Don't kill Love 221 The country's patriots were expressing their discontent. Swedish women were giving birth to children conceived by foreign countrymen.

c1390 (?c1350) St. Augustine l. 1260 in C. Horstmann Sammlung Altengl. Legenden (1878) 83 (MED) Tac hede of þe werk þon Of seint Austin, ȝor contre mon.

1425 W. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 3 A contrema [n] of myn in þe seyd court, Maister John Vrry.

?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 31^v A cuntre man, patriota, compatriota.

1548 Duke of Somerset Epist. Inhabitauntes Scotl. 239 Rather brothers then enemies, rather Countreymenne then Conquerours.

1576 T. Wotton in W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent To Countriemen sig. ¶¶ You my country men the Gentlemen of this Countie.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. vii. 103 I am Welch you know good Countriman.

1681 J. Evelyn Let. 27 Sept. in Diary & Corr. III. 259 A countryman of ours.

?1706 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft: 2nd Pt. iii. 31 The Earl of Strafford was born my near Neighbour (as well as my Country-man) in Yorkshire.

a1781 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip III (1783) i. 73 [He] persuaded many of his countrymen to enlist themselves under his banners.

1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. iii, in Poems 113 Christian and Countryman was all with him.

1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 148 Simonides is a countryman of yours.

1941 A. C. Bouquet Compar. Relig. x. 205 He succeeded in changing the barbarous customs of his countrymen in several particulars, notably in the abolition of infanticide and cruelty to animals.

1961 Guardian 6 Feb. 8/2 Mr Ben-Gurion warned his countrymen against letting ‘Levantinism’ creep into their national life.

2005 Z. J. Gimpelevich Vasil Bykaŭ: his Life & Wks. i. 12 When he did at last discover Chagall, Bykaŭ fell in love with the artistic spirit of his countryman.