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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) (1850) Apoc. xix. 17 Come ȝe, and be ȝe gederid to gydere to the greet soper of God [L. cenam magnam Dei].

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) (1850) Apoc. xix. 9 Blessid thei, that ben clepid to the soper of weddingis of the lomb [1611 King James the marriage supper of the Lambe; L. cenam nuptiarum Agni].

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 107 Þyse ilk renkez þat me renayed habbe..Schul neuer sitte in my sale my soper to fele.

1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) v. vii. sig. ss.vi ^v Y^e dyner or y^e souper of paradyse.

1529 J. Frith Pistle Christen Reader xl. sig. Mvi Not withstondinge it is to be feared that they go to supper with the devill.

1556 tr. J. de Flores Histoire de Aurelio & Isabelle sig. Q2 The quene and the ladies put them againe to gether for to geue vnto Affranio a verrey bitter sopper.

1592 Arden of Feversham v. i. 188 But wherefore do you bring him hether now? You haue giuen me my supper with his sight.

1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 v. v. 84 To London, and as I gesse, to Make a bloudie supper in the Tower.

a1629 T. Goffe Trag. of Orestes (1633) v. vi. sig. I2 Old Strophius dead from griefe; and murder heapt, Corps vpon corps, as if they ment t'inuite, All hell to supper, or som Iouiall night.

1674 C. F. Wit at Venture 68 For had they pist the puddle higher, It might have quite put out the fire, And if the cloth had soon been lay'd, The Devil had for his Supper stay'd.

1732 H. Fielding Old Debauchees i. viii. 10 I'll carbonade the Villain, I'll make a Ragout for the Devil's Supper of him.

1766 R. Rogers Ponteach i. iii. 14 I swear I'll blow 'em hence with Cannon Ball, And give the Devil an Hundred for his Supper.

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) (at cited word) ‘To set one his supper’, to do a feat which another cannot or dare not do.

1861 J. Haig Philosophy viii. 230 On that fatal evening the family of mankind assembled to a bitter supper.

1888 ‘Almhain’ Jewels of Prince de Janville xiv. 170 Malediction on the pair of you, I would send her to keep company with you at supper with the devil, but that to send his majesty two idiots in one day might offend him.

1912 W. R. Lighton Billy Fortune xiii. 101 ‘I made it for you. It's angel-food.’.. I didn't look at the cake; I was lookin' down in her lovely, shinin' eyes. ‘I've been eatin' my whole supper in heaven ever since you come down,’ I says to her.

1990 Messenger—Football Times (Nexis) 16 Aug. Port Adelaide has sold its proud tradition for pieces of silver and gone to supper with the Devil.

2004 P. Neville Mussolini vi. 135 In exchange for this, Mussolini had been able to pose as the conqueror of Ethiopia and had gained domestic plaudits, but he was to rue taking supper with the devil in the years to come.