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1693. Dryden’s Juvenal, if. (1697), 84. Unhappy Youth! whom from his destin’d End, No well-dissembled Madness could defend.
1697. Dryden, Æneis, III. 394. The Grove it self resembles Ida’s Wood; And Simois seem’d the well dissembl’d Flood.
17[?]. Congreve, Homer’s Hymn to Venus, Wks. 1730, III. 370. While to conceal the Theft from Juno’s Eyes, Some well-dissembled Shape the God belies.
1746. Thomson, Spring, 383. The well-dissembled fly, The rod fine-tapering with elastic spring.
1765. Colman, Terence, Andrian, I. i. 15. Then! there! the frighted Pamphilus betrays His well-dissembled and long-hidden love.
1817. Scott, Ivanhoe, xiv. The cup went round amid the well-dissembled applause of the courtiers.
