BOUGHT AND SOLD, phr. (old).—Entirely overreached, utterly made away with.
1591. HARINGTON, Ariosto, xvi. 33.
| Then were the Roman empire BOUGHT AND SOLD, | |
| The holy church were spoyl’d, and quite undone. |
1593. SHAKESPEARE, Comedy of Errors, iii. 1.
| It would make a man mad as a buck to be so BOUGHT AND SOLD. | |
| Ibid. 1597. Richard III., v. 3. | |
| Jockey of Norfolk be not too bold, | |
| For Diccon thy master is BOUGHT AND SOLD. |
