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1340–70 Alex. & Dind. 1009 But þe same þat ȝe so by vs silf trowe Longeþ, ludus, to ȝou þat liuen so in ese.

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 19 Who that here wordes understode, It thenkth thei wolden do the same.

c1400 Rule St. Benet (verse) 488 And also crist in his godspell Of þis same makes minde o-mell.

a1450 J. Myrc Festial 8 Anon he made to take hym, and constrayne hym forto haue done þe same.

a1536 W. Tyndale Pathway Holy Script. in Wks. (1573) I. 383/2 What soeuer is done to the lest of vs..it is done to Christ, and what soeuer is done to my brother (if I be a Christen man) that same is done to me.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 9772 Þe sam to my-self, sothli, may happyn.

1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 142 I haue commended Strabo Seruilius unto you oftentimes: and do the same againe at this instant.

1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. 489 Here that common Proverbe holds true, ‘When two do the same it is not the same’.

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 112 I failed not to speak to our Vice-Consul of the Light I had seen in the Isle of Samos, and he told me all the same that the rest did.

1711 J. Greenwood tr. J. Wallis in Ess. Pract. Eng. Gram. Pref. 2 So the French Words guerre [etc.]..signify the same with these English Words.

1812 R. Southey Let. 16 Feb. in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1850) III. 328 It is the same in our age that it was in our youth.

1848 C. Kingsley Bad Squire xiv If your misses had slept, squire, where they slept, Your misses would do the same.

1864 J. H. Newman Apologia (1904) v. 168/1 When I became a Catholic, nothing struck me more..than the English out-spoken manner of the Priests. It was the same at Oscott, at Old Hall Green, at Ushaw.

1896 A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad xliii. 65 Bring the eternal seed to light, And morn is all the same as night.

1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. iii. 27 Þenne [lauȝten] þei leue þis lordynges, at Meede. Wiþ þat þer come Clerkes to Cumforte þe same.

c1400 Lansdowne Ritual in Rule St. Benet, etc. 143 Þe nouyce sal..singe þare thrise: ‘Suscipe me, domine’ &c. Þe couent..sall reherce þe same again thrise, and ‘Gloria patri’.

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) viii. 97 Upon that same schalle he sytte,..righte as himself seyde.

c1450 Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) ii. 25 Take this appyl and ete this ssame, This ffrute is best as I the telle.

1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) Ded. 1 That ye sawe gladly the Inhabitants of y^e same enformed in good, vertuous, prouffitable and honeste maners.

1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope iii. vii [Men] ought to preyse and loue the chirche and the commaundements of the same.

1503 in C. Kerry Hist. St. Lawrence, Reading (1883) 111 Also ij staynyd clothis w^t ryddels to þe same.

1509 J. Fisher Mornynge Remembraunce Countesse of Rychemonde (de Worde) sig. Aii ^v Aboue all these same there is a foure maner of noblenes.

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 237 Ȝour hienes can nocht gett an meter To keip ȝour wardrope, nor discreter To rewle ȝour robbis and dres the sam.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Lev. xiii. 40 Whan the hayres fall out of the heade of a man or a woman, so that he is balde, the same is cleane.

1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Celebr. Holye Communion f. xxi^v Graunt that they maie both perceaue and knowe what thinges they ought to do, and also haue grace and power faithfully to fulfill the same.

1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. I6^v Watermen haunt the waters, and fishes swim in the same.

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. x. sig. I6^v That was a temple..Farre renowmed..Much more then that, which was in Paphos built, Or that in Cyprus, both long since this same . View more context for this quotation

1611 Bible (King James) Matt. xxiv. 13 But he that shall endure vnto the end, the same shall be saued. View more context for this quotation

a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. i. 11 In the instant that I met with you, He had of me a Chaine, at fiue a clocke I shall receiue the money for the same . View more context for this quotation

1621 in H. Owen & J. B. Blakeway Hist. Shrewsbury (1825) I. 574 Laid out in stocking up of the gorst in Kingsland, making the same into faggottes.

?1677 S. Primatt City & Covntry Purchaser & Builder 8 An over-shot-mill, which is the water brought to the top of the wheel, in landers or troughs which cast the same into Buckets made in the wheel for the receipt of the same, the force and weight of which water drives the same.

1790 Coll. Voy. round World V. x. 1755 The natives thinking we were determined to pay not the least consideration, at length ceased to apply for the same.

1804 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. III. 362 If such tenant for life die on the day on which the same was made payable, the whole [rent must be paid].

1820 J. Keats Isabella in Lamia & Other Poems 50 Her lute-string gave an echo of his name, She spoilt her half-done broidery with the same.

1901 M. Franklin My Brilliant Career viii. 56 A big red-bearded man..had received a letter from Mrs. Bossier instructing him to take care of me. He informed me also that he was glad to do what he termed ‘that same’.

1926 in H. W. Fowler Mod. Eng. Usage 512/1 Sir,—Having in mind the approaching General Election, it appears to me that the result of same is likely to be as much a farce as the last.

1966 G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. vi. 135 A different influence of written language is seen in the use of same as a pronoun equivalent to it, as in ‘put the tailboard up and secure same with a length of wire’ from New Zealand (Wally Crump, 1964), a facetious borrowing of lawyer's English which is quite common.

1973 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 24 July 4/4 The following sentence in a brief is typical of its misuse as a noun: ‘Waldbaum purchased the soda..then stacked it on the shelves in order to sell the same.’