Beplague

And there with laughter to beplague you, 'Till it has ſhaken off your ague.

“ If not, I aſk what other evil “ Can ſo beplague us but the devil?

It has its inconveniences, being distant from that source of all comfort, the well, and beplagued with ants.

True, my father was buried at sea, but only because he was a soldier of the 45th Highlanders who went overseas to St Lucia in the 1793 expedition and there died of one of those bloody fluxes that so beplague men unused to the climate of the West Indies.