1590 C. Marlowe sig. F1 The Turke and his great Emperesse..Have desperatly dispatcht their slauish liues.
1608 W. Shakespeare xix. 12 Edmund,..I thinke is gone In pitie of his misery to dispatch his [sc. Gloster's] nighted life. View more context for this quotation
1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi 61 Which if it had hit, where he levelled, dispatched had beene the life of Tolmido.