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• 1593, Thomas Nashe, The Choice of Valentines, lines 140-141:
  And then he flue on hir as he were wood, / And on hir breeche did hack and foyne a-good.
• 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
  They lash, they foin, they pass, they strive to bore / Their corselets, and the thinnest parts explore.
• 1976, Robert Nye, Falstaff:
  These Fastulfrs and Falsts could drink as well as they could foin or fight, and this has also been the case with me.
• 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 25:
  He stroke, he soust, he foynd, he hewd, he lasht,