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c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 1067 Naf I now to busy bot bare þre dayez, And me als fayn to falle feye as fayly of myyn ernde.

a1796 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum (1803) VI. 562 Robin..Play'd me sic a trick, And me the Eller's dochter.

1812 M. Edgeworth Absentee xi, in Tales Fashionable Life VI. 181 Which would be hard on us, and me a widow.

1864 G. Meredith Emilia in Eng. I. xv. 208 And twenty shindies per dime we've been havin', and me such a placable body, if ye'll onnly let m' explode.

1906 H. Green At Actors' Boarding House 209 I thought I'd die laughing at his making love..and me with a husband doing his bit back in Auburn.

1932 P. G. Wodehouse Hot Water i. 21 And me who had split Even Stephen with her on every deal, never chiselling, never holding out on her, no, not so much as a dime.

1960 V. Williams Walk Egypt i. vi. 50 I swear,..every time I think of the way that little scutter done—and me only trying to be neighborly.

1989 P. McCabe Carn x. 149 Lord above isn't the world a strange place and me here thinking all the time you were in Carnaby Street or some place.