Definition of "lieger"

[H]is fears / Lie Liegers for you in his breſt, and there / Negotiate your affairs.

1641 (first performance), [John Denham], The Sophy. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for H[enry] Herringman, […], published 1667, Act I, scene ii, page 14