1606. Shakspeare, Macbeth, iv., 1. How now, you secret, black, and midnight Hags!
1627. Drayton, The Moon-calf (Chalmer’s English Poets, 1810, iv., 133). The filthy hag abhoring of the light.
1632. Jonson, Magnetic Lady, v. 6. Out hag!
1637. Jonson, Sad Shepherd, ii., 2. As if you knew the sport of witch-hunting, Or starting of a hag.
1680. Cotton, Poems, etc., ‘To Poet E.W.’ Adulterate hags, fit for a common stew.
1690. B. E., Cant. Crew, s.v.
1748. Thomson, Castle of Indolence, i., 73. Fierce fiends and Hags of hell their only nurses were.
1773–83. Hoole, Orlando Furioso, xliii., 998. But such a Hag to paradise conveyed, Had withered by her looks the blissful shade.
1815. Scott, Guy Mannering, xliii. Hatteraick himself, and the gypsy sailor, and that old hag.
1892. Hume Nisbet, Bushranger’s Sweetheart, p. 89. Old women were there also, with hideous vice-stamped features, veritable hags all of them.