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1548 N. Udall in N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Pref. f. xvi^v It procedeth more of their enuie, of their vnquietnes of minde..then of any faute or iust deserte in Erasmus.

c1550 T. Becon Flour of Godly Praiers f. lxxx O mooste merciful God, we fyndynge in our selfes a iust deserte of al those thy plages..(so great and manifold is the number of our synnes).

1582 R. Parsons First Bk. Christian Exercise viii. 98 The commodities, preferments, and pleasures of the worlde, doe possesse so stronglye the hartes of manye men..beinge forsaken also vpon their iust desertes of the grace of God.

1599 Warning for Faire Women ii. 1508 Upon a pillory..that al the world may see, A just desert for such impiety.

1640 True Rel. Susan Higges (single sheet) My servants to the Iustices, declar'd what I had said; For which I was attached, and to the Iayle convey'd, And at the Sises was condemn'd, and had my iust desert.

1715 T. Parnell Ess. Homer ii. 41 in A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I The other's Remarks are perish'd as things that Men were asham'd to preserve, the just Desert of whatever arises from the miserable Principles of ill Will or Envy.

1756 E. Perronet Mitre ii. lviii. 75 What, wert thou drawn upon a sledge, All traitors just desert: Would heavy weigh around thy neck, And, with the first quassation break The sinews of thy heart.

1838 Amer. Biblical Repository Apr. 341 When this book comes to a second edition, (and if it meet its just deserts it certainly will).

1840 S. M. Heaton Thoughts on Litany vi. 200 All those evil consequences which our sins, negligences, and ignorances..have provoked upon us as our most just dessert.

1899 C. Eldridge Boy Captain xxiii. 242 ‘They get only their just deserts.’ ‘If we all got our “just deserts” it would go hard with some of us.’

1948 M. Anderson Anne of Thousand Days ii. i. 52 Probably what I feel now is my just desert.

2005 C. Hardyment Malory (2006) 33 Nor do the villains always get their just deserts.