"Likewise to get, to pill and poll _by hooke and crooke_
so much, as that----"
In a letter of Sir Richard Morysin to the Privy
Council, in Lodges _Illustrations, &c_., i. 154:--
"Ferrante Gonzaga, d'Arras, and Don Diego, are in a leage,
utterlie bent to myslyke, and to charge _by hook or by
crooke_, anything don, or to be don, by the thre fyrst."