measles

Les rugeroles: maseles.

Why the meazills, should you stand heere, with your traine...

The Swyne dyed of the Measils.

Their fruit-trees are subject to two diseases, the Meazels... and lowsiness.

Others take a fether, and dippe it in the saide water, and therwith they annoynte all the Measells of the Face when they are come forth.

Measles. When prints are imperfectly fixed, the appearance presented is very similar to that of the same disease in the human subject. Hence the name.

[…] they would prefer having him "die of the measles," as wags at the CIA put it, than be punished by legal means. If there is no convenient way of administering the "measles," they may even favor simply letting him go.