'T is elder Scripture, writ by God's own hand,—

Scripture authentic! uncorrupt by man.

Edward Young (1684-1765): Night Thoughts. Night ix. Line 644.

The story is extant, and writ in choice Italian.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

The setting sun, and music at the close,

As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last,

Writ in remembrance more than things long past.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1.

One writ with me in sour misfortune's book.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Romeo and Juliet. Act v. Sc. 3.

All your better deeds

Shall be in water writ, but this in marble.

Beaumont And Fletcher: Philaster. Act v. Sc. 3.

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

Words writ in waters.

George Chapman (1557-1634): Revenge for Honour. Act v. Sc. 2.

Trifles light as air

Are to the jealous confirmations strong

As proofs of holy writ.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Othello. Act iii. Sc. 3.

And thus I clothe my naked villany

With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ,

And seem a saint when most I play the devil.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 3.

And what is writ is writ,—

Would it were worthier!

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 185.

Are not within the leaf of pity writ.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Timon of Athens. Act iv. Sc. 3.

If you have writ your annals true, 't is there

That, like an eagle in a dove-cote, I

Flutter'd your Volscians in Corioli:

Alone I did it. Boy!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Coriolanus. Act v. Sc. 6.