1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 506 Play. But who, O who had seene the mobled [1623 inobled] Queene? Cor. Mobled Queene is good, faith very good.

1673 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd ii. 278 The old Jades..are mobled up like so many Judges.

1768 D. Garrick Let. 25 Dec. (1963) II. 632 D^r Warburton says—Mobled, or Mabled signifies, veiled... Shakespear certainly means, wretchedly clad.

1813 J. Forsyth Remarks Excurs. Italy 234 The age, the expression, the retortion of head..embodied by idea of the mobbled Queen.

1860 S. T. Dobell in Macmillan's Mag. Aug. 325 But heard, far off, the mobled woe Of some new plaintiff for the light.

1877 Earl of Southesk Meda Maiden 120 There rested a woman,—close mantled in brown, Mobled and muffled from sandal to crown.

1879 in G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. at Moble Mind as yo' bin mobled up right well afore yo' start.

1895 M. Beerbohm in Yellow Bk. Jan. 276 Much must remain mobled in the mists of antiquity.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. ix. [Scylla & Charybdis] 198 She lies laid out in stark stiffness in that secondbest bed, the mobled queen.

1927 V. Sackville-West Land 27 How delicate in spring they be That mobled blossom and that wimpled tree.

1985 A. S. Byatt Still Life xiv. 171 He remembered this time in very bright, clear primary colours, but all softly muffled, or mobled, as if seen through white veiling.