a1325 (?c1300) (Cambr. Gg.1.1) 1128 (MED) Alle is at mi nowen red.
c1330 Lai le Freine in (1929) 10 iii. 3 (MED) Ich haue yȝouen mi nowen dome.
c1440 (?a1400) 1806 (MED) Thowe wenes fore thi wightenez the werlde es thy nowen.
a1450 (1885) 63 This is to me a perles pyne, To se my nawe dere childe þus boune!
c1475 (a1400) Sir Amadace (Taylor) in J. Robson (1842) 51 (MED) Lette vs leng to-gethir here..As alle thi none hit ware.
a1500 (?c1400) (1880) 638 Wit it thy nown werk.
a1500 tr. Lady Prioress in J. O. Halliwell (1840) 110 (MED) Than shalle ye have my love, my nawen hony swett.
a1547 J. Redford (1848) 38 I wylbe bolde wyth my nowne darlyng! Cum now, a bas, my nowne proper sparlyng!
1549 Princess Elizabeth in H. Ellis (1824) 1st Ser. II. 156 You write that I seme to Stande in my none witte in beinge so wel assured of my none selfe.
1616 N. Breton Good & Badde: Effem. Fool in (1879) II. 13/1 His father's loue, and his mother's nonechild.
1655 T. Fuller vi. 283 Adrian the fourth, our none Countrey-man.
1681 6 Dec. 2/1 Upon further examination I found 'um to be the Ape's nown Poetry.
1721 N. Amhurst (1754) No. 8. 38 Twenty chose rather to be fondled up, and Call'd mother's nown boys.
1790 R. Tyler i. i Maria, like a good girl, to keep herself constant to her nown true-love, avoided company.
1805 A. A. Opie III. i. 51 The mulatto..exclaimed, ‘I buy dem, and pay for dem wid mine nown money.’
1827 Gude Wallace in F. J. Child (1886) III. vi. No. 157. D.i ‘I wish we had our king,’ quo Gude Wallace, ‘An ilka true Scotsman had his nawn.’
1876 C. C. Robinson 89/1 In some sentences is would seem as if an initial vowel merely robbed the preceding word of an ending consonant, as in ‘Thou's my nawn bairn;’ ‘Thou's a nawn pet’.
1960 No. 54. 15 I med him wi me nown haands.