Definition of "waylaid"

I have a jest to execute that I cannot managealone. Falstaff, Bardolph, Peto, and Gadshill shall robthose men that we have already 'waylaid – yourself and Iwill not be there. And when they have the booty, if youand I do not rob them – cut this head off from myshoulders.

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene ii]

My beloved reader has no doubt in the course of his experience been waylaid by many such a luckless companion

1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 20, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848