= COCK-CROWING.
c. 1300. Beket, 1090. A lute before the Cockes crowe.
c. 1450. Lonelich, Grail, lvi. 145. This same nyht atte ferst kok.
1483. Cath. Angl., 70. Þe Cok crawe, gallicantus.
c. 1490. Promp. Parv. (MS. K.), 86. Cokcrow, tyme, gallicinium.
1595. Barnfield, Ode (Arb.), 64. She … each morning (by Cocks crew) Showers downe her siluer dew.
1692. Washington, trans. Milton’s Def. Pop., v. (1851), 133. You disturb all people with your shitten Cock-crow; that’s the only property in which you resemble a true Cock.
1798. Southey, Well St. Keyne. From cock-crow he had been travelling.
1880. Goldw. Smith, in Atl. Monthly, No. 268. 208/2. The character would vanish like a ghost at cock-crow.
