cozeners

The fifth kind are cozeners, such as belong to magicians and witches; their prince is Satan.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Of cozeners, that haunt this occupation, that they cannot well tell how to live one by another, but as he jested in the Comedy of Clocks, they were so many, [2027] major pars populi arida reptant fame, they are almost starved a great part of them, and ready to devour their fellows,

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

And indeed, sir, there are cozeners abroad; therefore it behoves men to be wary.

The Winter’s Tale 2004

Run away with the cozeners; for so soon as I came beyond Eton, they threw me off from behind one of them, in a slough of mire; and set spurs and away, like three German devils, three Doctor Faustuses.

The Merry Wives of Windsor 2004

Verily, ye fill your mouth with noble words: and we are to believe that your heart overfloweth, ye cozeners?

Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

Be happy together, ye faithless, ye cozeners, ye murderers.

Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

They were also frequented by "light and lewd disposed persons, as harlots, cutpurses, cozeners, pilferers &c., who under colour of hearing plays, devised divers evil and ungodly -- conspiracies."

Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Jessica A. Browner Jessica A. Browner 1994

‘It is the resource of cheaters, knaves, and cozeners, ’ said Sampson.

Chapter III 1917

Run away, with the cozeners; for so soon as I came beyond Eton, they threw me off, from behind one of them, in a slough of mire; and set spurs and away, like three German devils, three Doctor Faustuses.

Act IV. Scene V. The Merry Wives of Windsor 1914

And indeed, sir, there are cozeners abroad; therefore it behoves men to be wary.

Act IV. Scene III. The Winter’s Tale 1914