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?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena Orcherd of Syon (Harl.) (1966) 405 It is opinly knowe þat a wickid man dooþ yuel, & his owne conscience telliþ him so.

?c1425 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Royal 17 D.vi) (1860) 26 I tolde hym so, and ever he seide, nay.

1532 T. More Confut. Tyndales Answere ii. p. cxl Tyndale sayth that saynt Paule chose hym bycause he found in hym more wysdome, sadnes, and vertue, then in the aged men of that place. And Tyndale doeth well to tell vs so.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V iii. vii. 101 I was told so by one that knows him.

1674 C. Cotton tr. B. de Montluc Commentaries vi. 302 Sir, we know very well you have been told so.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. lxiii. 300 You know..that I have an open and free heart, and, naturally, have as open and free a countenance; at least my complimenters have told me so.

1840 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 18 Sept. 2/2 The persons rightly concluded it was an effort to ‘rope in’, and told Trainer so.

1910 R. Kipling Rewards & Fairies 187 Senecas aren't Hurons, they're Iroquois, of course, and Toby told him so.

1995 W. Marvel in G. W. Gallagher Fredericksburg Campaign 6 Officers seemed to convince themselves that they had seen it coming all along, and as soon as Burnside was safely dead, some came forward to claim that they had told him so.