Meane-while it is a great comfort unto a Christian man, to see our mortall implements, and fading tooles, so fitly sorted to our holy and divine faith(nb..).
c. 1608, (w), (w), Act II, Scene 1,http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=pericles&Scope=entire&pleasewait=1&msg=pl
I can compare our rich misers to nothing so fitly as to a whale; a’ plays and tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at last devours them all at a mouthful (..)
1611, (w) of the (w), w:Book of Proverbs|Proverbs 25:11,https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+25&version=KJV
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Labour is Life: from the inmost heart of the Worker rises his god-given Force, the sacred celestial Life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God; from his inmost heart awakens him to all nobleness, — to all knowledge, ‘self-knowledge’ and much else, so soon as Work fitly begins.
1948, (w), (w), New York: Scribner, 1987, Chapter 28,
This Court has a solemn duty to protect society against the murderous attacks of dangerous men, whether they be old or young, and to show clearly that it will punish fitly such offenders.