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c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 1942 Lef þou sengle on þy scherte, & bar-fot þou most go.

a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) iv. l. 96 Saue of a doughter þat I lafte allas Slepynge..Allas I ne hadde y-brought here in here sherte.

a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) II. 612 And therewithall sir Lamerok lepte oute of the bed in his shurte.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxiij Then came in the poore younglinges..bounde in ropes..one after another in their shertes, & euery one a halter about his neck.

?1592 Trag. Solyman & Perseda sig. A4^v Where in my shirt but with my single Rapier, I combated a Romane.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 691 Ile do it in my shyrt . View more context for this quotation

1602 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. iii. sig. H4 Bring mee foorth in my shirt, and my gowne vnder myne arme.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iv. vii. 49 And worke in their shirt to, as my selfe for example, that am a butcher.

1744 ‘J. Love’ Cricket i. 4 (note) The robust Cricketer, plays in his Shirt.

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian ii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 59 The officer..escaped out of his bed-room window, and fled in his shirt.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. iv. iv. 230 General Dumouriez,..finds the street covered with ‘four or five thousand citizens in their shirts’.

2014 A. Alexander Smuggler wore Silk xii. 109 He had removed his coat, cravat and vest, and was dressed now only in his shirt.