OE 1234 Þær bið on eadgum eðgesyne þreo tacen somod, þæs þe hi hyra þeodnes wel wordum ond weorcum willan heoldon.
a1225 381 Sutel is and eðsene..þæt tu were iset ȝung to leaf and to lare.
?c1225 (?a1200) (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 92 Wið ute writung. þet fulðe is to eðsene.
a1300 (?c1175) Poema Morale (Jesus Oxf.) 338 in R. Morris (1872) 70 Þat is wel eþ-sene.