palter

To talk insincerely; to prevaricate or equivocate in speech or actions.

Romans, that have spoke the word, And will not palter.

Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor paltered with eternal God for power.

To talk insincerely; to prevaricate or equivocate in speech or actions.

To trifle.

Palter out your time in the penal statutes.

Behold this man, stored with genius, wit, learning, and a hundred good natural gifts: see how he has wrecked them, by paltering with his honesty, and forgetting to respect himself.

To haggle.

Herceler. Voyez to haggle, to dodge. N.b. Cotgrave defines herceler/harceler by example: "to haggle, hucke, hedge, or paulter long in the buying of commodity".

And be these juggling fiends no more believed, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.

To babble; to chatter.