equivocation

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Equivocation Bill Cain’s new comedy about a playwright named “Shagspeare” caught up in political intrigue in 17th-century London.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2014

A Treatise upon Equivocation," which was altered by Father Garnet into "A treatise against Lying & fraudule't dissimulatio'.

From The Identification of the Writer of the Anonymous Letter to Lord Monteagle in 1605 by Morgan, George Blacker

HENRY'S "Notes on Virgil," and articles on the "Treatise of Equivocation," "Damasked Linen," "Thomas More and John Fisher," "Convocation of York," &c., are unavoidably postponed until our next Number.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 108, November 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Francis Tresam.—From his examination relative to the book on Equivocation.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 283, November 17, 1827 by Various

Come, Sirrah, without Equivocation or mental Reservation, tell 298 me of what opinion you are, and what Calling; for by them—I shall guess at your Morals.

From Dramatic Technique by Baker, George Pierce