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- 1664, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 2, canto 3:
- Or witches simpling, and on gibbets
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- 1724, Nathan Bailey, An Universal Etymological English Dictionary, 2nd edition:
- Simpling, gathering of Simples or Physical Herbs in the Fields.
- 1833, William Hogarth, Anecdotes of William Hogarth: written by himself, page 47:
- The knowledge necessary for writing a work on the arts, differs as much from that acquired by the simple traveller, as the art of simpling doth from the science of botany.