Thou didst not borrow of Vice her indirect,
Crooked, and abject means.
2 Henry IV, IV., 5, 184:
God knows, my son,
By what by-paths and indirect crook'd ways
I met this crown.[540]
Great Duke of Florence, II., 2, 12:
Yes, and drink more in two hours
Than the Dutchman or the Dane in four and twenty.
Hamlet, I., 4, 18: