1593. Shakspeare, Titus Andron., ii. 2. The hunt is up. Ibid. (1594), Lucrece, 1277. When went . . . Tarquin from hence? Madame, ere I was up, replied the maid. Ibid. (1597), Richard III., v. 3, 7. Up with my tent there! Here will I lie to-night.
c. 1605. Heywood, If You Know not Me, ii. You are all larkes this morning, Vp with the sun: You are stirring earely.
1607. Dekker, Northward Ho, i. 3. May. Where is your mistress, villain? when went she abroad? Pren. . . . Why, as soon as she was up, sir.
1608. Armin, Nest of Ninnies (1842), 43. He ups and tels [him].
1611. Bible, Psalm xii. 6 (Psalter). I will up, saith the Lord.
c. 1620. Fletcher, Double Marriage, v. 1. Duke. What, is the city up?
1635. Quarles, Emblems, ii. 14. The true bred-gamester ups afresh, and then Falls to't again.
1639. Massinger, Un. Combat, ii. 1. Now my anger's up.
c. 1650. Cowley, Chronicle, iii. Till up in Arms my Passions rose, And cast away her Yoke.
1672. Ray, Proverbs [Bohn], 61. Up with it, if it be but a gallon; it will ease your stomach.
1766. Brooke, Fool of Quality, i. 82. She ups with her brawny arm, and gave Susy a douse on the side of the head.
1799. Scott, Gray Brother. Up, up, unhappy! haste, arise.
[?]. Farmer's Old Wife [Child, Ballads, viii. 258]. She ups with her pattens and beat out their brains.
1837. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, ii. 199. The Saint made a pause As uncertain, because He knew Nick is pretty well up in the laws.
1843. Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, xxvi. What are you up to, old feller?
1848. Thackeray, Snobs, xxi. He will scrape acquaintance with old Carabas before they make Ostend. . . . See, he is up to old Carabas already! I told you he would.
1849-61. Macaulay, History Eng., xvi. In twenty-four hours all Devonshire was up.
1849. Robb, Squatter Life, 31. 'Well, hoss, we expect you to be right co-chunk up to the hub on them thar questions, and pour it into the enemy in slashergaff style.'
1853. Haliburton, Wise Saws, 34. You mustn't wander away, and you mustn't declaim: if you do, their attention is off, the public see it, and you are up a tree.
1856. Stowe, Dred, i. 311. 'For my part,' said Abijah, grimly, 'if things was managed my way, I shouldn't commune with nobody that didn't believe in election up to the hub.'
1857. Macaulay, Goldsmith. In his seventeenth year Oliver went up to Trinity College, Dublin, as a sizar.
1863. Jeaffreson, Live it Down, xxiv. I'll finish my cigar in the betting room and hear what's up.
1863. Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers, xix. It was late, it is true, but on a May evening even country people keep up till eight or nine o'clock.
1865. Kingsley, Hillyars and Burtons, xxviii. I made them up stick and take me home.
1866. Baker, Heart of Africa, 259. I saw that it was all up with our animals.
1866. Eliot, Felix Holt, Int. It was not so well for a lawyer to be over-honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.
1868. Ouida, Under two Flags, v. Up to every dodge on the cross that this iniquitous world could unfold.
1869. Stowe, Oldtown, 124. 'Here you are, you little minx. . . . What are you up to now?'
1869. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, lxviii. Before I knew what he was up to, [he] said, 'Arise, Sir John Rudd.'
1870. Le Fanu, Dragon Volant, i. I was posting up to Paris.
d. 1878. Bryant, Song of Marion's Men. The woodland rings with laugh and shout, As if a hunt were up.
d. 1879. Clifford, Lectures, ii. 137. If an astronomer, observing the sun, were to record the fact that at the moment when a sun-spot began to shrink there was a rap at his front-door, we should know that he was not up to his work.
1885. Field, 25 Sep. M'Lawlay . . . got down with a fine put, and stood again one up. Ibid. (1886), 20 Feb. Having found it and used it, you must up sticks and away in a day or two.
