1623, (w), (w), Act V, Scene 5,http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2232/2232-h/2232-h.htm
(..) Shall I die like a leveret,
Without any resistance?—Help, help, help!
I am slain!
1686, (w), “Of a Tree cut in Paper” in Poems, &c. written upon several occasions, and to several persons by Edmond Waller, London: H. Herringman,http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A67346.0001.001?view=toc
Fair Hand that can on Virgin-paper write,
Yet from the stain of Ink preserve it white,
Whose travel o’er that Silver Field does show,
Like track of Leveretts in morning Snow;
1720, (w) (translator), The (w) of (w), Book 10,http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6130/6130-h/6130-h.html
As when two skilful hounds the leveret wind;
Or chase through woods obscure the trembling hind;