Do calm the fury of this mad-bred flaw."
3d Pt. Henry VI., act iii. sc. i.
"—these flaws and starts (impostors to true
fear)."
Macbeth, act iv. sc. iv.
"Falling in the flaws of her own youth, hath
blistered her report."
Meas. for Meas., act ii. sc. iii.
So far for the poet's acceptation of its meaning.
Thus also Lord Surrey:—