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c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 7586 ‘Drynk hail’, he seyþ, & drynkeþ þer-of, Kyssyng hym in bourde & scof.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 128 Do away þe scoffes and þe scornes.

a1400 K. Alis. (Laud) 5461 Nov it is ypassed, hij ne don þerof Bot gamenen togedres, & ek scoff.

a1400 K. Alis. (Laud) 667 This nis nouȝth romaunce of skof [Lincoln's Inn MS. scof].

a1450 J. Myrc Instr. to Par. Priests What maner þynge þou art gulty of, Telle me boldely & make no scof.

c1530 Crt. Love 1185 ‘Bereve me, goddesse’, quod he, [of] thy might, My skornes all and skoffes, that I have No power forth, to mokken any wight That in thy service dwell.

?1547 J. Bale Brefe Comedy Tempt. Our Lorde sig. Div If ye do beleue, that ye are the sonne of God, Beleue thys also, if ye leape downe here in scoff, From thys hygh pynnacle, ye can take no harme theroff.

a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1846) I. 49 The Bischope was heightly offended, asweill at the skwff and bitter mock, as at the bold libertie of that learned man.

1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 188 Doubtles gif we returne, we sal vndirly a perpetual skuf and shame.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 263 By heauen, all drie beaten with pure scoffe . View more context for this quotation

1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales i. iii. 6 [Augustus] asked the opinion of the Pontife in a scoffe, whether there might be a lawfull marriage betwixt them.

1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus (i. 1) 4 As in nicknames taken vp in scoffe.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 205 Being to receive the Sacrament he demaunded in scoffe a great piece of bread.

a1854 H. Reed Lect. Brit. Poets (1857) 360 It was a piece of scoff at his political foes.