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1659. W. Chamberlayne, Pharon., IV. iv. 32. To ask The way; for more his youth’s unprompted fear Expects not there.
c. 1700. Congreve, To Cynthia, Wks. 1730, III. 291. And my tongue talks, unprompted by my heart.
1761. Glover, Medea, IV. i. Jason would have come Uncall’d, unprompted, but by love alone.
1810. Crabbe, Borough, x. 100. Then may you call in aid the moderate glass, But let it slowly and unprompted pass.
1860. Tyndall, Glac., I. 169. A respect for him, which this unprompted idea of his augmented.
