Sentence:  No other apt means had this Cicely, to work her <WSD>hoddy-peak</WSD> husband a proportionable plague to his jealousy, but to give his head a full lodging of infamy: she thought she would make him complain for something, that now was so hard bound with an heretical opinion. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A fool, person of low intelligence. (c. 1500-1820)