glaunce

While everyone knew that pastorals were intended "under the vaile of homely persons and in rude speeches to insinuate and glaunce at greater matters" (Puttenham, Arte of English Poesy), they also understood that the "glaunce" was done through layers of accessible meaning that have their own validity.

Shepheardes Calendar 1579

Whylest rapt with ioy resembling heauenly madnes, my soule was rauisht quite as in a traunce: and feeling thence no more her sorowes sadnesse, fed on the fulnesse of that chearefull glaunce.

Amoretti and Epithalamion 1594

Poesie, being perswaded that the Poet deuised the _Eglogue_ long after the other _drammatick_ poems, not of purpose to counterfait or represent the rusticall manner of loues and communication: but vnder the vaile of homely persons, and in rude speeches to insinuate and glaunce at greater matters, and such as perchance had not bene safe to haue beene disclosed in any other sort, which may be perceiued by the Eglogues of _Virgill_, in which are treated by figure matters of greater importance then the loues of

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

But for all this, I do deny that the Eglogue should be the first and most auncient forme of artificiall Poesie, being perswaded that the Poet deuised the Eglogue long after the other drammatick poems, not of purpose to counterfait or represent the rusticall manner of loues and communication: but vnder the vaile of homely persons, and in rude speeches to insinuate and glaunce at greater matters, and such as perchance had not bene safe to haue beene disclosed in any other sort, which may be perceiued by the Eglogues of Virgill, in which are treated by figure matters of greater importance then the loues of Titirus and Corydon.

The Arte of English Poesie 1569

Swaine) a boye: for so he is described of the Poetes, to be a boye.s. alwayes freshe and lustie: blindfolded, because he maketh no difference of Personages: wyth diuers coloured winges,.s. ful of flying fancies: with bowe and arrow, that is with glaunce of beautye, which prycketh as a forked arrowe.

Shepheardes Calendar 1579