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c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 1788 (MED) Þer þai maden her dueling Long anouȝ to her likeing.

a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 1026 William..layked þere at lyking al þe long daye.

c1390 in F. J. Furnivall Minor Poems Vernon MS (1901) ii. 497 Þouh he be nouȝt at þi lykynge, Þe prest þat schal þy masse synge, Þerfore lette þou nouht.

a1425 (a1400) Northern Pauline Epist. (1916) Eph. i. 9 (MED) He schulde make knowyn to vs þe sacrament of his wille after þe goode lykyng[L. bonum placitum] of hym þat he purposyde in hym.

1480 Cronicles Eng. (Caxton) ccxlvi. sig. u5 He..spared no thyng of his lustes ne desires, but accomplisshed them after his likynge.

1551 R. Crowley Pleasure & Payne sig. Bii^v You..spent all at your owne lykynge In wantones and banketynge.

1565 T. Stapleton Fortresse of Faith f. 6 He interpreteth it after his owne liking and priuat iudgement.

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1401/2 Finding a place to his liking, he esconsed himselfe in despite of the Spaniards.

1623 J. Hagthorpe Visiones Rerum 49 The Chyurca..hath certaine lappets of skin vnder her belly, which she opens and shuts at her liking.

1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts ii. 138 Liberty to dispose of thy selfe to thine owne best liking.

1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 228. ⁋7 A Gentleman, who would willingly marry, if he could find a Wife to his Liking.

1789 Glasse's Art of Cookery (new ed.) ii. 63 Season with pepper and salt to your liking.

1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto V cxviii. 194 She was..not shocked at tears, For women shed and use them at their liking.

1869 J. Eadie Comm. Epist. Gal. (ii. 7) 123 It might not be in all points to their perfect liking..but they could not set themselves against it.

1937 Amer. Home Apr. 39/2 Many hours were spent placing the stones but..they were finally arranged to our liking.

1965 Current Anthropol. 6 103/1 I am..sorry that my definition of marriage does not satisfy him, though I did not expect that it would be to everybody's liking.