1778 A. Ross (ed. 2) 70 Then sud she gae frae head to foot in silk; Wi' castings rare and a gueed nourice-fee, To nurse the King of Elfin's heir.
c1805 Jolly Beggar in F. J. Child (1894) V. ix. 111 Four-an-tuenty hunder mark, to pay the nires feea.
1969 G. M. Brown 148 But when six months is come an' gane I'll come an' pay the noris fee.