1638 W. Davenant 50 The Mirtle Sprig (that never can decay) I had not knowne.
1776 S. J. Pratt (1777) I. 46 Catching up a myrtle-sprig, [I] kept it, sportingly, as if to conceal a new sigh.
1820 P. B. Shelley i. i. 7 Under your mighty ancestors, we pigs Were bless'd as nightingales on myrtle sprigs.
1871 R. Browning 105 Then he crowns with myrtle sprigs His head.