cloake

This morning was brought home my new velvet cloake, that is, lined with velvet,

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 24: September/October 1663 Samuel Pepys 1668

This morning was brought home my new velvet cloake, that is, lined with velvet, a good cloth the outside, the first that ever I had in my life, and I pray God it may not be too soon now that I begin to wear it.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1663 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

This morning was brought home my new velvet cloake, that is, lined with velvet, a good cloth the outside, the first that ever I had in my life, and I pray God it may not be too soon now that I begin to wear it.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

This morning was brought home my new velvet cloake, that is, lined with velvet, a good cloth the outside, the first that ever I had in my life, and I pray God it may not be too soon now that I begin to wear it.

The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sep/Oct 1663 Pepys, Samuel 1663

But, these are the best fruits of such Fryerly Confessions, to compasse the issue of their inordinate appetites; yet clouded with the cloake of

The Decameron 2004

Lascivious desire, and no religious devotion, made him draw neere her, and whether under shrift (the onely cloake to compasse carnal affections) or some other as close conference to as pernitious and vile a purpose, I know not: but so farre he prevailed upon her frailety, and such a bargaine passed betweene them, that from the Church, he wonne her to his Chamber, before any person could perceive it.

The Decameron 2004

Alas! therein you deceive your selfe; for I have a thousand crochets working continually in my brain, whereby to entrap a wiser creature then a woman, yet veiled all under the cunning cloake of love, but sauced with the bitter Wormewood of hate.

The Decameron 2004

The Lady with a modest blush, much condemned this folly in him, that his covetousnes should serve as a cloake to cover any unfitting speeches which her chaste eares could never endure to heare.

The Decameron 2004

For, if thou hadst beene wise, as thou makest the world to beleeve by outward apparance, thou wouldest never have expressed such a basenesse of minde, to borrow the coulour of a sanctified cloake, thereby to undermine the secrets of thine honest meaning Wife.

The Decameron 2004

Wherein may be observed, what palpable abuses do many times passe, under the counterfeit cloake of religion

The Decameron 2004