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1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xvi. sig. H.iv^v Sensuall appetyde muste haue a swynge, all these thinges notwith[st]andynge.

1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 17^v Shooting hath two Tutours..the one called Daye light, y^e other Open place, whyche .ii. keepe shooting from euyl companye, and suffers it not to haue to much swinge.

1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. viii. 130 Youth they say must haue his swinge.

1597 T. Beard Theatre Gods Iudgements ii. viii. 254 He began to giue the full swindge to his lawlesse and vnruly desires.

1598 G. Chapman tr. Homer Seauen Bks. Iliades v. 617 For whose sake I will lose the raynes, and giue mine anger swindge.

?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xxii. 597 That then~streight bed Is sowre to that swindge, in which she was bred.

1631 G. Chapman Warres Pompey & Caesar ii. i. 12 I had able means, And spent all in the swinge of lewd affections.

a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Spanish Curat v. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. G4/2 I'll have my swindge upon thee.

1668 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) iii. xxiii. 233 By preferring the full swindge of the Animal life before the orderly Pleasures..of the Divine.

1675 J. Crowne Countrey Wit i. 11 I am perswaded the bounds of his Land have been the utmost extent of his travel; except since his Parents death, he has given himself a swinge to some Race, or Fair.

1687 tr. Sallust (1692) 8 A savage sort of People, living at their full swinge of Liberty and Licence.