Peale, 1595, in "Old Wives Tale:" "Fee, fa, fum. Here is the Englishman, Conquer him that can; ..."

Nash, 1596, "Have with You to Saffron Walden:" "O, tis a precious apothegmaticall pedant who will finde matter inough to dilate a whole daye of the first invention of Fy, fa, fum, I smell the bloud of an Englishman."

From an article in "Folklore."

Does English blood really have a different smell?

A great word- apothegmaticall: clearly spoken.