handsel

She would leave a gold guinea to hansel the baby.

, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.86:

And it is better undecently to faile in hanseling the nuptiall bed, full of agitation and fits, by waiting for some or other fitter occasion, and more private opportunitie, lest sudden and alarmed, than to fall into a perpetuall miserie, by apprehending an astonishment and desperation of the first refusall.

Indeed there is no contrivance of our body, but some good man in Scripture hath hanselled it with prayer.