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OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 200 Næfð ðis word [sc. volo] nænne imperatiuum, forðan ðe se willa sceal beon æfre frig.]

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 5 Þeos & þullich oðere beoð alle ifreo [read i freo] wille to don oðer to leten hwile me wule.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) v. 2646 (MED) But septer & crowne frely I resigne..Of my fre wil hool into þin hond.

c1425 Castle of Love (Egerton) (1967) l. 4 God send vs thoght to his plesyng, In whos fre wil hynges all thyng.

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 69 To proue a..caus..be gage of armes jn clos bataill, of a mannis free will.

?1510 T. More tr. G. Pico della Mirandola in tr. G. F. Pico della Mirandola Lyfe I. Picus sig. c.v Uery happy is a christen man sit y^t y^e victori is..put in his owne frewill.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. viii. sig. G6^v All the castle quaked from the ground, And euery dore of freewill open flew.

1611 Bible (King James) Ezra vii. 13 All they..which are minded of their owne free-will to goe vp to Ierusalem. View more context for this quotation

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 635 Least Passion sway Thy Judgement to do aught, which else free Will Would not admit. View more context for this quotation

1694 Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. ii. iii. 38 Every Ship's Master is left to his free-will, whether he will sail into the Ice.

1784 R. Bage Barham Downs II. 258 You shall be allowed to give and grant it, out of your own free will.

1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain II. xvi. 345 Though I left it thrice, it was of my own free will.

1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. App. 615 The relinquishment of Edinburgh by the English may have been somewhat less completely an act of free will.

1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 128 They were allowed to wander at their own free will.

1919 L. Meriwether War Diary of Diplomat 93 There are two good reasons for believing that Berlin has received false reports: first, the French seem disposed of their own free will to be humane [etc.].

1946 W. H. Auden Table Talk (1990) 2 It's very unfortunate, but when a character has absolutely no free will it becomes very boring.

1982 J. Simms Unsolicited Gift i. 36 We must..give everything away, of our own free will.

2003 J. Cowburn Love xviii. 179 Neither other people, circumstances nor forces in myself compel me to do this. I love you of my own free will.