spoil (n.)

spoil (v.)

Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.—Butler: Hudibras, pt. ii. c. i. l. 843.

Love is a boy by poets styl'd;

Then spare the rod and spoil the child.

Samuel Butler (1600-1680): Hudibras. Part ii. Canto i. Line 843.

They spare the rod, and spoyle the child.

Ralph Venning (1620(?)-1673): Mysteries and Revelations, p. 5. (1649.)