1593. Alleyn, ... [in Collier, Memoirs, 25]. My good, sweete mouse
[of his wife].
1594. Shakspeare, Love’s Lab. Lost, v. 2. What’s your dark meaning,
mouse?
1594. Look About You [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), vii. 463]. Sweet
mouse, the hermit bids you stay here.
1611. Beaumont and Fletcher, Knight of the Burning Pestle, i. 2.
Wife. Stay ... till I question my husband. Cit. What is it, mouse.
1656. Muses Recr. [Hotten], p. 33. Even Mopsa, prety mouse.