Come about [one]

verbal phr. (old).—1.  To circumvent. Cf., COME OVER and COME ROUND.

  1755.  JOHNSON, A Dictionary of the English Language (11 ed., 1816), s.v. ‘About’ in common language they say to COME ABOUT a man, ‘to circumvent him.’

  2.  (venery).—To copulate. (Said only of men by women).