1551 T. More Utopia II (1624) 82: A lumpish block-head churle [...] which hath no more wit then an asse.at blockhead, adj.
1551 T. More Utopia II (1624) 96: But now most blockheaded asses be set to learning.at blockheaded, adj.
1551 T. More Utopia II (1624) 130: They burne frankenscence [...] and light also a great number of wax candles and tapers, not supposing this geere to be any thing auailable to the diuine nature.at gear, n.
1551 T. More Utopia ii 4: Take into this number also their servants: I mean all that flock of stout bragging rush-bucklers [F&H].at rush buckler (n.) under rush, v.
1551 T. More Utopia I (1624) 12: Their tenants, I meane, whom they poll and shaue to the quicke by raising their rents.at shave, v.
1551 in T. More Utopia Intro. (1808) xv: She [his mother] used to say afterwards ‘Tillie vallie, tillie vallie what will you do, Mr. More? – will you sit and make goslings in the ashes? it is better to rule than be ruled.’.at tilly-vally, n.