preludium - Weblio 英和・和英辞典 (original) (raw)

1624 (first performance), John Fletcher, Rvle a VVife and Have a VVife. A Comoedy. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Leonard Lichfield […], published 1640, OCLC 960101958, Act I, scene i, page 3:

Maybe they would learn to raiſe the picke. / I am for 'um. They are very modeſt; tis a fine preludium. […]