Antedate of 'wax' = 'speak emotionally'

[Douglas G. Wilson]

> Anyone have pre-1990 attestations?
Here's one which appears to be published in 1980:

http://books.google.com/books?id=gKEg7VyHiIoC&pg=PA80&dq=%22waxed+eloquently%22+date:1700-1990&lr=&num=100&as_brr=3&sig=ACfU3U1det59jDEyFbh84oVH0iumRBpSMQ

<<The influential English economist, John Stuart Mill, waxed eloquently
on this point: ....>>

-- Doug Wilson

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