LekhoriLekhoriTo be dilatory about; put off; postpone; neglect; omit.
[I]f you can thinke vpon any preſent meanes for his deliuerie, doe not forſlow it.
To delay; hinder; impede; obstruct.
But by no meanes my way I would forslow / For ought that ever she could doe or say […]
To be slow or dilatory; loiter.
Foreslow no longer, make we hence amaine.
From Middle English forslowen, forslewen (“to neglect”), from Old English forslāwian, forslǣwan (“to be slow, unwilling, delay, put off”), equivalent to for- + slow.
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