buy and sell, to
dispose of utterly, to over-reach, to betray:
“Does buy and sell his honour as he pleases,”
HENRY VIII., i. 1. 192
;
“bought and sold,”
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, iii. 1.
72
; KING JOHN, v. 4. 10 ;
1 HENRY VI., iv. 4. 13;RICHARD III., v. 3. 305; TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, ii. 1. 45.
“To be bought and sold in a company.”
Ray's Proverbs, p.
179, ed. 1768.
(So Harman, in his Caueat or Warening for Common
Cursetors, etc., 1573,
“the leud lousey language . . . wherewith they bye and sell the common people as they passe through the
country.”
P. 64, reprint 1814
; and Skelton, in his Magnyfycence,
“Why, was not for money Troy bothe bought and solde?”
Works, vol. i. p. 277, ed. Dyce. )
Works, vol. i. p. 277, ed. Dyce. )
