Venim or vernisch · or vinegre, I trouwe, Walleþ in my wombe · or waxeþ, ich wene. [c1386, Langland, “Passus V. 70”, in Piers Plowman:]
Wel hath this miller vernisshed his heed; Ful pale he was for-dronken, and nat reed. [1392, Chaucer, “The Reeve's Tale 229-230”, in The Canterbury Tales^([The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer]):]