For he with him hath evere fyve Servantz that helpen him to stryve: The ferst of hem Malencolie Is cleped, which in compaignie An hundred times in an houre Wol as an angri beste loure, 30 And noman wot the cause why.
1865, Alexander Hume, Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue:
But this corruption is caryed with a stronger tyde then reason can resist, and we wil not stryve with the stream. 14.