See writ in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "c. 1596–1598 (date written), W[illiam] Shakespeare, The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. […] (First Quarto), [London]: […] J[ames] Roberts [for Thomas Heyes], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:",
"text": "I know the hand, in faith tis a faire hand,\nAnd whiter then the paper it writ on,\nIs the faire hand that writ.",
"type": "quote"
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"ref": "c. 1678 (date written; published 1682), J[ohn] Dryden, “Mac Flecknoe”, in Mac Flecknoe: A Poem. […] With Spencer’s Ghost: Being a Satyr Concerning Poetry. […], London: […] H[enry] Hills, […], published 1709, →OCLC, page 7:",
"text": "Let Virtuoſo’s in five years be Writ; / Yet not one Thought accuſe thy toil of Wit.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1749, Henry Fielding, “Containing five Pages of Paper”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume II, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IV, page 2:",
"text": "For as this is the Liquor of modern Hiſtorians, nay, perhaps their Muſe, if we may believe the Opinion of Butler, who attributes Inſpiration to Ale, it ought likewiſe to be the Potation of their Readers; ſince every Book ought to be read with the ſame Spirit, and in the ſame Manner, as it is writ.",
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},
{
"ref": "1859, Omar Khayyam, “Quatrain LI”, in [Edward FitzGerald], transl., Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia. […], facsimile edition, London: Bernard Quaritch, […], →OCLC, page 11:",
"text": "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, / Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit / Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,[…]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1971, “Life on Mars?”, performed by David Bowie:",
"text": "But the film is a saddening bore\n'Cause I wrote it ten times or more\nIt's about to be writ again",
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}
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}
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