As, Tiberius the Emperor, because he was a great drinker of wine, they called him by way of derision to his owne name Caldius Biberius Mero, in steade of Claudius Tiberius Nero: and so a iesting frier that wrate against Erasmus, called him by resemblance to his own Errans mus, and are mainteined by this figure Prosonomasia, or the Nicknamer.
"The Arte of English Poesie"
George Puttenham
He was taught in a little room above Wotton church porch, by one frier, when he was nearly four.
"Highways and Byways in Surrey"
Eric Parker
The whiche beeyng heard of the frier, and seyng the little helpe that he had there, and the want of a Phisition, and other thynges of benefite, he thanked hym and saied unto hym, that he should bryng hym unto hym: who beyng come, and seyng his disease, he said to the Casique, that if he tooke a pouder that he would giue hym of a roote, that it would heale hym.
"The Old English Herbals"
Eleanour Sinclair Rohde