1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.4:more enfierced through his currish play, Him sternely grypt, and haling to and fro, To ouerthrow him strongly did assay ....
1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.1.3:God's vengeance, and all the plagues of Egypt come not upon us, since we are so currish one towards another, so respectless of God and our neighbours, and by our crying sins pull these miseries upon our own heads.
