ill. British usage restricts the meaning to nausea, employing ill to

describe a man suffering with a disease of whatever sort. Yet “sick” is supported by the very best literary authority. The term occurs again and again in Elizabethan literature. Reference to Bartlett’s concordance will convince even the most skeptical that the word abounds in Shakespeare, and that, too, in passages where the correct interpretation leaves no doubt that “ill” is meant. Suffice it to cite only an example or two: In “Midsummer Night’s Dream” (act 1,