Thy Soul, I thought, was all so; but I see You have your weakness, can dissemble too; I would have sworn that Sorrow in your face Had been a real one: Nay, you can die in jest, you can, false Woman: I hate thy Sex for this.

And then methought I was so, But yet even then I fear'd she did dissemble.

I knew thou didst dissemble when we parted, And therefore durst not trust thee with thy Passions: I only staid to gather from my Sister What news I might concerning your affairs, Which I with joy came to impart to you,

I never could dissemble at my best, And now methinks your Highness should believe me, When my despairs and little love to life Make me despise all ways that may preserve it.

She might be able to dissemble his intervention, shield him from obloquyif, as she feared, he was responsible for anything doubtful.

On several occasionsat Lille, for examplethe keenest members of the parliamentary opposition, Odilon Barrot and his friends, withdrew, soon after taking their places at table, because the others absolutely refused to dissemble their hostility to the Crown and the King.

On another day she sent for him, and exclaimed: "I cannot now dissemble; since I saw thee I seem to be as deadmy heart all withered.

with courage of a man Bridle this over-grieving passion, Or else dissemble it to comfort her. ROB.

Meanwhile political troubles came so thick and heavy on the King, some of his powerful nobles being in open rebellion, that he felt it necessary to dissemble and defer the gratification of his vengeance on the man he hated more than any personage in England.

And yet doe not; For, if you raile, too, men that know you can Dissemble, may beleeve you love me, and Tis not my ayme.

And because they know women are given to dissemble, they will never believe them when they deny.

To speak at once, man hath a privilege in valour; in clothes and good faces we but imitate women, and many of that sex will not think much, as far as an answer goes, to dissemble wit too.

At the approach of danger he could dissemble; and, whenever it suited his views, could change his measures without changing his object.

Twas so of old, and ever will be, and which Tiresias advised Ulysses in the poet,Accipe qua ratione queas ditescere, &c., is still in use; lie, flatter, and dissemble: if not, as he concludes,Ergo pauper eris, then go like a beggar as thou art.

Patience in such cases is a most sovereign remedy, to put up, conceal, or dissemble it, to forget and forgive, "not seven, but seventy-seven times, as often as he repents forgive him;" Luke xvii.

But to such as are judicious, meek, submissive, and quiet, these matters are easily remedied: they will forbear upon all such occasions, neglect, contemn, or take no notice of them, dissemble, or wisely turn it off.

[4054]Lie not, dissemble not.

By good counsel, advice of friends, to contemn or dissemble it.

Can Abdalla then dissemble!

Mr. Vice-President and Gentlemen of the Senate: It would be an affectation in me to dissemble the pleasure I feel on receiving this kind address.

The guide's visible efforts to dissemble the truth only made things worse.

It is through her that men, as depraved as they are, have not yet presumed openly to bestow on vice the name of virtue, and that they are reduced to dissemble being just, sincere, moderate, benevolent, in order to gain one another's esteem.

But the possibility of a mother's not finding room for her son, however cramped her own quarters, seemed not to have occurred to her new relations, and the preparing of her dressing-room and boudoir for Paul's occupancy was carried on by the household with a zeal which obliged her to dissemble her lukewarmness.

Still, even these conditions were not permanent, and the discipline of the last years had trained Undine to wait and dissemble.

He was prudent enough, however, to dissemble his feelings.