Equivocate

I knew that Tom would equivocate.

Knock. Knock, knock. Who's there in th'other Deuils Name? Faith here's an Equiuocator, that could ſweare in both the Scales againſt eyther Scale, who committed Treaſon enough for Gods ſake, yet could not equiuocate to Heauen: oh come in, Equiuocator.

All that Garnet had to say for him was that he supposed he meant to equivocate.

He equivocated his vow by a mental reservation