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a1400 (c1300) Northern Homily: Serm. on Gospels (Coll. Phys.) in Middle Eng. Dict. at Mark(e On him mai I best found mi werke, And of his dedes tac mi merke.

c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xvii. 103 (MED) May vch man se and gode merke take Who is bihynde and who bifore.

a1450 York Plays (1885) 42 (MED) Of shippe-craft can I right noght; Of ther makyng haue I no merke.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. vii. xxxiv. 273 All this went hee to espie..clad in a common souldiours jacket..; to the end, that the enemies might not take marke of the Generall himselfe.

1602 B. Jonson Poetaster ii. i. sig. C3 Let me intreate you for all the Ladies behauiors, Iewels, Iestes, and Attyres, that you marking as well as I, we may put both our markes togither, when they are gone, and confer of them.

1671 Sir C. Lyttelton in E. M. Thompson Corr. Family of Hatton (1878) I. 70 One marke they take of it is employing S^r George Downing embassador thither.

1823 W. Scott Peveril I. viii. 224 Little matter worthy of mark occurred.

1933 Jrnl. Philos. 30 515 Especially worthy of mark are the sections on knowledge and reality.

1987 Summary of World Broadcasts Pt. 3: Far East (B.B.C.) 6 Oct. FE/8691/A3/1 It is said that Deng Xiaoping said something at a session of the CCP Political Bureau, and one of his statements is worthy of mark.