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a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. lxxxvii. f. xxxiiii After hym shal come a Childe or Childer that shalbe of suche Insolency and wastynge that..[they] shall..waste and destroye by theyr folyes all that other noble men hath purchased to their handes.]

1581 W. Charke in A. Nowell et al. True Rep. Disput. E. Campion (1584) iv. Ff ij b I English it to your hande, because you deale not with the Greeke.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iv. xv. 29 What thou would'st do Is done vnto thy hand. View more context for this quotation

1654 J. Bramhall Just Vindic. Church of Eng. iii. 53 The Court of Rome had done that to their hands.

1701 W. Wotton Hist. Rome i. 188 The Work is done to your Hands already by your Father.

1799 Butler's Lives Saints (new ed.) VII. 424 The general..has five assistants nominated by the general congregation, who' prepare all matters to his hands.

1855 R. Browning Light Woman xiv Robert Browning, you writer of plays, Here's a subject made to your hand!

1917 W. Wilson in Presidential Messages & State Papers X. 394 We should act through the instrumentalities already prepared to our hand.

2007 S. Gristwood Elizabeth & Leicester x. 190 Elizabeth, seeking often to play her courtiers off one against the other, found material ready to her hand in Leicester and in others.