Englands Parnassus: or the choysest flowers of our moderne poets, with their poeticall comparisons Descriptions of bewties, personages, castles, pallaces, mountaines, groues, seas, springs, riuers, &c. Whereunto are annexed other various discourses, both pleasaunt and profitable.

Dissimulation.

—Fierce lightening from her eies Did set on fier faire Heroes sacrifice: Which was her torne robe and inforced haire, And the bright flame became a maid most faire For her aspect; her tresses were of wire, Knit like a net, where harts all set on fire, Struggled in pants and could not get releast: Her armes were all with golden pincers drest, And twentie fashioned knots, pullies and brakes, And all her body girdled with printed snakes. Her downe parts in a scorpion taile combinde, Freckled with twenty colours p••edwings shinde Out of her shoulders; cloth did neuer die, Nor sweeter colours euer viewed eie. In scorching Turkey, Cares, Tartarie: Then shinde about this spirit notorious, Nor was Arachnes web so glorious. Of lightning and of shreds she was begot, More hold in base dissemblers is there not. Her name was Eronusis. G. Chapman.

The colours of dissemblance and deceit, Were died deep in graine, to seeme like truth. Ed. Spencer.

Better a wretch then a dissembler. E. Gilpin.

—Commonly in dissimulations Th'excesse of glauering doth guile ••••tect, Reason refuseth falshood to direct.

The will therefore for feare of being spied, Exceedeth meane, because it wanteth guide. M. of M.

—Commonly all that counterfeit In any thing, exceed the naturall meane, And that for feare of fa••••ing in their feat. Idem.

The louely lookes, the sighes that storme so sore, The due of deep dissembling doublenesse: These may attempt, but are of power no more, Where beautie leanes to wit and soothfastnesse. D. Lodge.

—Who hath to doo With deep dissemblers, must dissemble too. Ch. Middleton.

Ʋid. Hypocrisie.