1596. Shakspeare, Merry Wives, iii, 3. Go to, then;—we’ll use this
unwholesome humidity, this gross watry pumpion;—we’ll teach him to
know turtles from jays!
1605. Shakspeare, Cymbeline, iii, 4. Some jay of Italy, Whose
mother was her painting, hath betray’d him.