1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts VIII:There was a certayne man called Simon, which beforetyme in the same cite, used witchecrafte and bewithched the people, sayinge that he was a man that coulde do greate thinges.
1866, Algernon Swinburne, A Ballad of Burdens, lines 33-36Thou shalt seeGold tarnished, and the grey above the greenAnd as the thing thou seest thy face shall beAnd no more as the thing beforetime seen.
