counterfait

So if we describe the time or season of the yeare, as winter, summer, haruest, day, midnight, noone, euening, or such like: we call such description the counterfait time.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

The matter and occasion leadeth vs many times to describe and set foorth many things, in such sort as it should appeare they were truly before our eyes though they were not present, which to do it requireth cunning: for nothing can be kindly counterfait or represented in his absence, but by great discretion in the doer.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

[Sidenote: _Hypotiposis_, or the counterfait representation.]

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

[Sidenote: The counterfait sicknesse of duke Edrike.]

Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (7 of 8) The Seventh Boke of the Historie of England Raphael Holinshed

Hipotiposis, _or the counterfait, otherwise called the figure of representation.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

He vsed counterfait letters, to imagine dreames, and to conferre false religions, to trye if those thinges could serue his tourne, in comforting and couraging his souldiours.

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

Songs, wherein he sheweth the counterfait action very liuely & pleasantly.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

Countrey make them a Bishop, who like a foolish boy, goeth about blessing and preaching with so childish termes, as maketh the people laugh at his foolish counterfait speeches.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

The Gouernour commanded to loose a grayhound, which was alreadie fleshed on them, which passing by many other Indians, caught the counterfait Cacique, which had escaped from the Christians, and held him till they came to take him.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584

The matter and occasion leadeth vs many times to describe and set foorth many things, in such sort as it should appeare they were truly before our eyes though they were not present, which to do it requireth cunning: for nothing can be kindly counterfait or represented in his absence, but by great discretion in the doer.

The Arte of English Poesie 1569