How to pronounce“cozenage”in English
This first is from Elizabeth's reign. A letter sent by the Lord Mayor and aldermen of London in 1597, which called for all plays to be cancelled. Plays, he wrote, "are a special cause of corrupting the youth,
containing nothing but unchaste matters, lascivious devices, shifts of cozenage and other lewd and ungodly practices." He also went on to say that they make people lazy and criminal and give them black death,
which, I mean, I've worked with some flat footed lighting technicians but no one with the pestilence. Other Puritans came along and started writing some long and unhinged pamphlets.
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Definitions of “cozenage”
The fact or practice of cozening; cheating, deception.
“They ſay this tovvne is full of coſenage: / As nimble Iuglers that deceiue the eie: […]”
An instance of cozening; a scam.
“When I receive your Lines, my dear Princess, and find there Expressions of a Passion; though Reason and my own Immerit tell me, it must not be for me; yet is the Cozenage so pleasing to me, that I (brib'd by my own Desires) believe them still before the other.”
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