c. 1601, Gervase Markham, The Dumb Knight, London: John Bache, 1608, Act III,
Fore God it is a delicate fine suite, rich stuffe, rare worke, and of the newest fashion; nay if the Senats businesse were neuer so hasty, I will stay to try it on, come, help good wenches helpe, so there, there there.

Who is this fellow, Corinna? Some journeyman taylor, I suppose, who chuses to try on the gentleman’s cloaths before he carries them home

[…] Amy tried on the blue ring with a delighted face and a firm resolve to earn it.

“It would be a pity to throw away a good pair of shoes,” she said. “Try ’em on, boy.”

He could have feigned noncomprehension, but with Lanyon one didn’t try anything on.

Try on

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