1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II, Act V, Scene III:
And with his spirit sadly I survive, / to mock the expectations of the world; / to frustrate prophecies, and to raze out / rotten opinion (..)
1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, Scene III:
"It is the greene-ey'd Monster, which doth mocke / The meate it feeds on."
1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
Why do I overlive? / Why am I mocked with death, and lengthened out / to deathless pain?
Milton
He will not (..) / Mock us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence.
1765, Benjamin Heath, A revisal of Shakespears text'', page 563 (a commentary on the "mocke the meate" line from Othello):
‘Mock’ certainly never signifies to loath. Its common signification is, to disappoint.
1812, The Critical Review or, Annals of Literature, page 190:
The French revolution indeed is a prodigy which has mocked the expectations both of its friends and its foes. It has cruelly disappointed the fondest hopes of the first, nor has it observed that course which the last thought that it would have pursued.