The common priests be not so obedient unto their ordinaryes that they will pay money except they know why. Now it is not expedient that every rascal should know the secretes of the very true cause, for many considerations.—Tyndale, The Practice of Popishe Prelates.
Now shall I tel you which ben bestes of chace;
And ye shall, my dere sones, other bestes all,
Whereso ye hem finde, rascall hem call.
Juliana Berners, The Book of St. Albans.
As one should in reproach say to a poor man, Thou raskall knave, where raskall is properly the hunter’s term given to young deer, lean and out of season, and not to people.—Puttenham, Art of English Poesy, 1811, p. 150.
Both sorts of seasoned deer,
Here walk the stately red, the freckled fallow there;
The bucks and lusty stags among the rascals strewed,
As sometimes gallant spirits amongst the multitude.