c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) Thopas-Melibeus link l. 7 Now swich a rym the deuel I biteche This may wel be rym dogerel quod he.
a1513 R. Fabyan (1516) II. Prol. f. iv For thoughe I shulde all day tell Or chat with my ryme dogerell.
a1529 J. Skelton (?1530) sig. Bii In bastarde ryme after the dogrell gyse.
1589 G. Puttenham ii. iv. 63 A rymer that will be tyed to no rules at all..such maner of Poesie is called id [i.e. in] our vulgar, ryme dogrell.
?1628 J. Taylor sig. A7v In doggrell Rimes my Lines are writt, As for a Dogge I thought it fitt.
1631 J. Weever 457 This mockish rime doggerell.
1679 tr. T. A. d'Aubigné ii. i. 99 Was it not a cursed peice of Impudence to report, and write in Rime doggerel, That the King and Monsieur Rosny..were about to dismiss the Comedians.
1683 W. Kennett tr. Erasmus 27 The Poet shall be burlesqu'd upon with his own doggrel rythms.
1700 M. Pix iv. 30 There's my Lady Tossbum did a thousand rediculous things, and at last cry'd for very Vexation, that none of the Scriblers wou'd put her in Rhime Dogrel.
1711 J. Addison No. 60. ¶11 The double Rhymes, which are used in Doggerel Poetry.
1789 W. Belsham I. xii. 233 The vile doggrel translation of Hobbes.
1822 C. Lamb in June 532/1 The Blind Beggar..whose story doggrel rhymes..cannot so degrade or attenuate, but that some sparks of a lustrous spirit will shine through the disguisements.
1868 A. P. Stanley v. 397 The doggrel epitaphs which were hung over the royal tombs.
1903 18 76 The conventionality of his poem in both phraseology and incident,..its tiresome ‘rhyme doggerel’, and many meaningless lines.
1905 Baroness Orczy (1906) xiv. 129 His doggerel verse, ‘We seek him here, we seek him there’, etc., was sung to the tune of ‘Ho! Merry Britons!’ and to the accompaniment of glasses knocked loudly against the table.
1920 S. Lewis x. 111 A God who spake not in doggerel hymns.
1987 E. K. Sedgwick in (1993) 201 The horrid, doggerel blank verse in which I..represent continually to my own ear the place of my unthinkingness.
2004 Summer 48/2 I compared the line drawings to the plants I saw along the way, making doggerel rhymes of their unfamiliar names: Alelí..and Tintillo;..ucar, albarillo.