scribler

Otherwise, it is not to be supposed, at least by our scribler, that he would have approved of those

John Adams diary 13, 1 March - 31 December 1766, March 1767 1961

On that vile scribler, that did my wowyng disgrace.

Ralph Roister Doister Nicholas Udall 1530

Fare thou well scribler, I crie thee mercie in deede.

Ralph Roister Doister Nicholas Udall 1530

They had tried, till they were weary, what was to be got by railing at each other: nobody was either concerned or surprised if this or that scribler was proved a dunce: but every one was curious to read what could be said to prove Mr. Pope one, and was ready to pay something for such a discovery: a stratagem, which, would they fairly own, it might not only reconcile them to me, but screen them from the resentment of their lawful superiors, whom they daily abuse, only

The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life ... 1812