What "pining and repining" meant in 17th century?

Question

...like in : may be dying or even pining and repining" or "dragging the pining ang repining victim to the grave"?

Answer 1

Pine has had a range of meanings, but in intransitive use it had by the middle of the 16th century pretty much settled down to the two fairly similar senses which survive today (OED):

 5. intr. To become wasted or feeble, from suffering (bodily or mental), esp. from intense grief, etc., wasting disease, or want of sustenance; to lose vitality or vigour; to languish, waste away.

 6. intr. To be consumed with longing; to languish with intense desire, to hunger after something; to long eagerly.

Repine has had since its first appearance in the middle of the 16th century only one transitive meaning (OED):

 1. intr. To feel or manifest discontent or dissatisfaction; to fret, murmur, or complain.

This picture is a little complicated by the fact that since the middle of the 17th century the two words have occasionally been used for each other; but I think you can be fairly sure that a 17th century writer meant by pine and repine the same thing you would mean if you wrote it today: languish and complain.