soothe (cf. Bailey's Dict. ‘to assent to, to flatter, or encourage’)
1.
to humour
Err. IV. iv. 81
“to him in these
contraries,”
3H6 III. iii. 175
“to your
forgery,”
R3 I. iii. 298
“ the devil that I
warn thee from,”
Lr. III. iv. 181.
2.
to flatter (trans.
and intr.)
John III. i. 121
“thou . . . s-'st up
greatness,”
Cor. II. ii. 78
“You s-'d not, therefore
hurt not”
; in vbl. sb. and ppl. adj. R3 I. ii. 169 (Ff Qq7 8
“smoothing”), Cor. I. ix. 44, Pilgr.
i. 11.