palter
“to shuffle, to equivocate, to act or speak unsteadily or
dubiously with the intention to deceive”
(CRAIK)
, TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, ii. 3.
227 ; v. 2. 48; JULIUS
CAESAR, ii. 1. 126; MACBETH,
v. 8. 20; ANTONY AND
CLEOPATRA, iii. 11. 63.

