Tom Brown (C16-7 Scottish playwright)

‘A robe of seeming truth and trust …’

A robe of seeming truth and trust [tab]Hid crafty observation; And secret hung, with poison’d crust, [tab]The dirk of defamation: A mask that like the gorget show’d, [tab]Dye-varying on the pigeon; And for a mantle large and broad, [tab]He wrapt him in Religion.