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c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 393 Welle niȝ alle her blessyngis ben sett to sale and to prise.

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 297 The Ston he profreth to the sale.

a1400 Octouian 1909 And chepede me that chyld to sale, For syxty florencys all be tale.

1543–4 Act 35 Hen. VIII c. 8 Such persons as brew for theyr owne prouision, and not to sale.

1576 G. Gascoigne Complaynt of Phylomene in Steele Glas sig. N.iiii But Progne (now in priuie place) Set silence al to sale.

1592 T. Tymme Plaine Discouerie Ten Eng. Lepers D 3 b Whereby they have set to sale for money Christ himselfe.

1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 7 A strong presumption that his modesty set there to sale in the frontispice, is not much addicted to blush.

1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης viii. 66 She pawn'd and set to saile the Crown-Jewels.

1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 15 Fair piazza's,..where the Merchants..expose to sale their drugs.

1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada i. v. i. 59 My price! why, King, you do not think you deal With one, who sets his services to sale?

1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 156 Those who set themselves, their trusts, and their country to sale.

1810 Act 50 Geo. III c. 41 §6 Every Hawker, Pedlar, Petty Chapman,..carrying to sell, or exposing to Sale, any Goods.

1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella III. ii. xxv. 412 The most considerable offices in church and state were put up to sale.