guilel (gil)

[ With gyle thow hem gete agayne al resoun, For,... in persone of an addre, Falseliche thow fettest there thynge that I loued. Piers Plowman (B), xviii. 332. Art thou not void of guile- A lovely soul formed to be blest and ble ? 21. A trick; a wile. Shelley, Epipsychidion. He toke the horn, And dyde as he was wont beforn, Bot ther was zit gon a gule . The Horn of King Arthur (Child's Ballads, I. 24). These fellows commonly, which use such deceitfulne and guiles , can speak so so finely, that a man would think Latimer , Misc. Selections. butter shall scant melt in their mouths. =Syn, Artfulne , subtlety, deception, trickery.