Green’s Dictionary of Slang

suffering from venereal disease.

c.1535		R. Copland Hye Way to the Spyttel House line 112: Scabby and scuruy, pocke eaten flesh and rynde, Lowsy and scalde, and pylled lyke as apes, With scantly a rag to couer theyr shapes.
1584		Three Ladies of London II: But a me take your part so much against a scalde olde chirle called Hospitalitie.
1597		G. Harvey Trimming of Thomas Nashe C3: Thou scabbed, scalde, lame, halting adiectiue as thou art.
1608		Dekker Honest Whore Pt 2 (1630) II i: I must be beholden to a scald hot-liuered gotish Gallant.
1608		Middleton Mad World (1640) III ii: An itching scab, that is your harlot; a sore scab, your Usurer [...] but a white scab, that’s a scald knave and a Pander.
1630		J. Taylor ‘A Cast over the Water’ in Works (1869) II 155: The scald Squire will haue his Iade, though it be but a scabbed one.
c.1647		Shepherd Pore Helpe A3: The whole broode Skuruy, skabbed, and skald, Shauen, shorne, and balde Pore priestes of Baule.