1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 504 Must..shee be named as if in a Romancy, that relates of Knights, and distressed Damosells, the sad Aduentures?

1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 281 A new-coined Romancy, or strange history of love-adventures.

1655 Duchess of Newcastle Worlds Olio 9 Romancy is an adulterate Issue, begot betwixt History and Poetry; for Romancy is as it were poetical fancies; put into a Historical stile.

1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 394 Our Star-gazing Arian..has..a great many Papers and Manuscripts to prove the Arian Romancies.

1877 J. E. Cooke Canolles iv. 168 In order that my explanation may have that deep interest which attaches to the pretty pictures in the romancy, I will first describe the scene of the incident which I purpose to relate, beginning in the true style of romance.

1836 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 39 807 The ‘clerk’ who translated from the Latin into ‘romancy’ many a learned treatise.

1653 Certain Verses 6 To make the thing yet more Romancie, Both wise and rich you may him fancie.

1659 A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 269 An old house situated in a romancey place.

1682 T. Shadwell Lancashire-witches 1 Canst thou think they are such romancy Knights, to take Ladies with nothing?

1820 R. Surtees Hist. Durham II. 67 Even with a proper deduction for the pit-row which intervenes betwixt the ruin and the slake, Jarrow is ‘a romancy spot’.

1872 A. Black & C. Black Guide Dorsetshire 8 It is as wild and ‘romancy’ as any lover of the picturesque can desire.

1943 Billboard 16 Jan. 22/1 Johnny McAfee's romancy baritone voice takes over for the second stanza.

1997 I. Donaldson Jonson's Magic House vii. 109 Jonson's late comedies, with their romancy accidents and encounters, unions and reunions.