I have in my youth oftentimes beene vexed to see a Pedant [tr. pedante] brought in, in most of Italian comedies, for a vice or sport-maker, and the nicke-name of Magister to be of no better signification amongst us.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 24, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book 1, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […]