counterplay

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Those of their day, all counterpleas notwithstanding, resemble the ethics of the patriarchs, of that far antiquity which regarded marriage with a stranger as immoral, and allowed only of marriage amongst kinsfolk.

From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Michelet, Jules

But, to requite such gulling terms as these, With words to my profession I reply;10 I tell of fourching, vouchers, and counterpleas, Of withernams, essoins, and champarty.

From The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)