secretted

Verb

 * 1) * 1625: Francis Lo. Uervlam, Viscount St. Alban, The Essayes or Covnsels, Civill and Morall, essay VI: Of Simulation and Dissimulation, page 22 (third author’s edition; London, Printed by Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret)
 * For if a Man, haue that Penetration of Iudgment, as he can discerne, what Things are to be laid open, and what to be secretted, and what to be shewed at Halfe lights, and to whom, and when, (which indeed are Arts of State, and Arts of Life, as Tacitus well calleth them) to him, a Habit of Dissimulation, is a Hinderance, and a Poorenesse.
 * For if a Man, haue that Penetration of Iudgment, as he can discerne, what Things are to be laid open, and what to be secretted, and what to be shewed at Halfe lights, and to whom, and when, (which indeed are Arts of State, and Arts of Life, as Tacitus well calleth them) to him, a Habit of Dissimulation, is a Hinderance, and a Poorenesse.