c1400 8476 So it was seyde to the Emperoure..How ffight was taken hem be-twene, And no man myȝt here ire a-swage And thei hadde ȝeuen to-gedur wage.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart I. ccxvii. 113 And ye same season ther was a wage of batel before the french king, betwene two noble and expert knightes.