What is "deceipt"

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In the meane season Thrasillus not able to refraine any longer, before Charites had asswaged her dolor, before her troubled mind had pacified her fury, even in the middle of all her griefes, while she tare her haire and rent her garments, demanded her in marriage, and so without shame, he detected the secrets and unspeakeable deceipts of his heart.

In that faire faceThe false resemblance of Deceipt, I wistDid closely lurke.

WHat man so wise, what earthly wit so ware,As to descry the crafty cunning traine,By which deceipt doth maske in visour faire,And cast her colours dyed deepe in graine,To seeme like Truth, whose shape she well can faine,And fitting gestures to her purpose frame.

Vnder thy mantle blacke there hidden lye,Light-shonning theft, and traiterous intent,Abhorred bloudshed, and vile felony,Shamefull deceipt, and daunger imminent.

Soone after that into a golden showreHim selfe he chaung'd faire Danaë to vew,And through the roofe of her strong brasen towreDid raine into her lap an hony dew,The whiles her foolish garde, that little knewOf such deceipt, kept th'yron dore fast bard,And watcht, that none should enter nor issew.

Oftimes their sundry powres they did employ,And seuerall deceipts, but all in vaine:For neither they by force could him destroy,Ne yet entrap in treasons subtill traine.

In the one, there's some analogie of similitude with the Deity, to wit, Justice and Charity, the twin-sisters of peace: But in the other, Good men must defend themselves by taking to them for a Sanctuary the two daughters of War, Deceipt and Violence: that is in plaine termes a meer brutall Rapacity: which although men object to one another as a reproach, by an inbred custome which they have of beholding their own actions in the persons of other men, wherein, as in a Mirroir, all things on the left side appeare to be on the right, & all things on the right side to be as plainly on the left.