Quagmire (1576, 1577)

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   OED and Merriam-Webster have 1580 for the q-word, "quagmire."
   These are from EARLY ENGLISH BOOKS ONLINE.  It should be noted that EEBO has added many texts to the database this year.



Author: Gascoigne, George, 1542?-1577.
Title: A delicate diet, for daintiemouthde droonkardes. Wherein the fowle abuse of common carowsing, and quaffing with hartie draughtes, is honestlie admonished. By George Gascoyne Esquier.
Publication date: Aug. 22. 1576.
&leaf; A delycate Diet for Dronkardes.
• ... e and droonkennesse, the verie earth of their body, (being as it were turned into a verie Fenne and Quagmyre) may better serue to breede Woormes and Ser|pentes of vice and sinne, then it should bee ab ...


Author: Heresbach, Conrad, 1496-1576.
Title: Foure bookes of husbandry, collected by M. Conradus Heresbachius, counseller to the hygh and mighty prince, the Duke of Cleue: conteyning the whole arte and trade of husbandry, vvith the antiquitie, and commendation thereof. Nevvely Englished, and increased, by Barnabe Googe, Esquire.
Publication date: 1577.
[para] The third Booke, of feeding, breeding, and curing of Cattell.
• ... th both in mountaynes, champion, and marish) yet his cheese delight is in the Woods that is full of Quagmires, where there groweth store of Oke, Corke, Beech, Mastholme, wyld Olyues, wyld Dates, Hasel ...