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?1504 S. Hawes Example of Vertu sig. cc.iiii Gyuynge god ere vnto the vteraunce.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job xxix. 21 Vnto me men gaue eare,..& with sylence they taried for my councell.

a1600 in Rev. Eng. Stud. 59 350 A good man wyll not give eare to yll.

1623 N. Ferrar Diary 1 Mar. in D. R. Ransome 17th-cent. Polit. & Financial Papers (1996) i. 41 They besought his Majestie not to give eare to any pryvate Informacions in this kinde.

1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. iv. 105 On Condition that thou wilt now,..give ear to my Instructions.

1821 A. Watson Ess. Var. Subj. III. xxx. 426 Every moment he is subjectable to that peremptory call, which all are compelled to give ear to and obey.

1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) xxiv, in Writings I. 245 [He] gave no ear to his own geese gaggling near his barn.

1932 T. Wolfe in Scribner's Mag. 91 241/3 Miss Brill would give ear and assent from time to time by the simple interjection: ‘Uh!’

1996 F. Chappell Farewell I'm bound to leave You (1997) 211 They drew a circle of pleased elders and a changeable minnow school of curious whippets who gave ear to a few bars and then scurried off.