prepar'd,

And that therefore a Petition be immediately prepar'd,

Petition for a New War! Anonymous 1815

Such drugs Jove's daughter own'd, with skill prepar'd,

The Odyssey of Homer 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1765

And I have further try'd, that with a small quantity of a certain Saline Substance I prepar'd,

The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject. Robert Boyle 1659

381: May finde us both perhaps farr less prepar'd,

Paradise Lost (1667) 1667

489: Bring him his Confessor, let him be prepar'd,

Measure For Measure (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623