[Ads-l] Antedating of "clang" (verb and noun)

[Steven Losie]

CLANG (OED3, v. 1.a., 1576)

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...the noyes of dredfull trompets clang.
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Source: Songes and sonettes, written by the right honorable Lorde Henry
Haward late Earle of Surrey.... London, 1557. p.115. (Early English Books
Online)
Author: Henry Haward
Link:
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A03742.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext

CLANG (OED3, n. 1.a., 1615)

[begin quote]
Such are not fit for Cupids Campe,
they ought no wages win
Which faint before the clang of Trump
or Battels broile begin.
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Source: Epitaphes, epigrams, songs and sonets with a discourse of the
friendly affections of Tymetes to Pyndara his ladie. Henry Denham, London,
1567. p.131. (Early English Books Online)
Author: George Turbervile
Link:
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A14019.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext

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