v. Obs. [a. Du. betal-en to pay: used in Eng. in 17th c.] trans. To pay.
1617. J. Taylor (Water P.), London to Hamburgh (N.). Our host said we had foure shilling to betall, or to pay, which made me suspect it to bee a bawdy house by his large reckoning.
1631. Heywood, Fair Maid W., I. II. i. With one word of my mouth I can tell them what is to be-tall.
