find (n.)

find (v.)

If I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in my heart to bestow it all of your worship.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 5.

Than catch and hold while I may, fast binde, fast finde.

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii.

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

New Testament: Matthew vii. 7.

When lovely woman stoops to folly,

And finds too late that men betray,

What charm can soothe her melancholy?

What art can wash her guilt away?

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774): The Hermit. On Woman. Chap. xxiv.