cozenage

They ſay this tovvne is full of coſenage: / As nimble Iuglers that deceiue the eie: […]

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.