cautel craft, deceit (
“Cautelle: A wile, cautell,
sleight; a craftie reach, or fetch, guilefull deuise or endeuor; also, craft, subtiltie,
trumperie, deceit, cousenage.”
Cotgrave's Fr. and Engl.
Dict.
), HAMLET, i. 3. 15;
“Applied to cautels”
A LOVER'S COMPLAINT, 303.
(
“Applied to insidious purposes, with subtelty and
cunning,”
MALONE)
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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