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a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, III. xxviii. (1912), 516. Pressing upon Zelmane in such a wel defended manner, that [etc.].
1603. Shaks., Meas. for M., V. i. 407. Whose salt imagination yet hath wrong’d Your well defended honor.
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, XVIII. 244. Vaine entrie seeking vnderneath our well-defended wals.
1697. Dryden, Æneis, IX. 933. Soon repuls’d they fly, Or in the well-defended Pass they dye.
1829. Scott, Anne of G., xxxiii. Instead of attempting to secure a well-defended frontier.
1870. Bryant, Iliad, I. 169. We …. freely will appoint for thee Threefold and fourfold recompense, should Jove Give up to sack this well-defended Troy.
