"What we oft do best,
By sick interpreters, once weak ones, is
Not ours, or not allow'd."
'By' would seem to be here the same as apud or bei, Germ., a sense it sometimes bears (see [Index] s. v.). Steevens gives instances of 'once' in the sense of sometimes; but I should incline to read or or and, with those whom he terms "the modern editors." I suspect that 'sick' may have been such.
"State statues only.—Things done well."
Perhaps my lord or lord cardinal has been effaced at the end.
"Almost with listening ravish'd, could not find."