"Late C14: To bedde goþ Aleyne and also John; / Þer nas na moore – hem nedede no dwale. — Geoffrey Chaucer, The Reeve's Tale"
"1842: Beneath and around the clumps of ragged moss-grown elder and hoary stunted whitethorn (...) rise thickets of tall nettles and rank hemlock, concealing the deadly but alluring dwale — J. van Voorst, The Phytologist, p. 595."