"Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow," quoth Robin, "thou seemest happy this merry morn."
"Ay, that am I," quoth the jolly Butcher, "and why should I not be so? Am I not hale in wind and limb? Have I not the bonniest lass in all Nottinghamshire? And lastly, am I not to be married to her on Thursday next in sweet Locksley Town?"
For I had beene vilely hurried and haled by those poore men, which had taken the paines to carry me upon their armes a long and wearysome way, and to say truth, they had all beene wearied twice or thrice over, and were faine to shift severall times.
The wingless, crawling hours, one among whom / As some dark Priest hales the reluctant victim / Shall drag thee, cruel King, to kiss the blood.
(RQ:Mrxl SqrsDghtr)
He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance.(..)But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again her partner was haled off with a frightened look to the royal circle,(nb..).
1992, (w), (w), Harper Perennial, 2007, page 262:
They will hale the King to Paris, and have him under their eye.