a1627 J. Fletcher & T. Middleton Nice Valour iii. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher (1647) sig. Uuu3v/1 Never was Shrove-tuesday Bird So cudgel'd.
1634 T. Carew (title) Cœlum Britannicum. A masque..on Shrove-Tuesday-night.
1641 T. Herbert 1 As flat as a Shrove-tuesday pan-cake.