Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Trial
You wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange-wife and a fosset-seller; and then rejourn the controversy of threepence to a second day of audience.
Shakespeare.—Coriolanus, Act II. Scene 1. (Menenius to Brutus.)