To requite, to punish.
Iʹll pay him out. Iʹll be a match for him, Iʹll punish him.
“They with a foxe-tale him soundly did paye.”
The King and Northerne Man (1640).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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