1561. Eden, Arte Navig., Pref. C. iij b (Arb.), xli. It sometyme so chaunce that such signes are fayleable, shewyng more in appearaunce then they conteyne in substaunce.
1576. Tyde Tarryeth no Man, in J. P. Collier, Illustr. Eng. Pop. Lit., xvi. 70. It is a thing but fayleable and vayne.
1649. Blithe, Eng. Improv. Impr. (1652), 129. This [plan] was yet never failable to me since I found it.
