truceman

Noun

 * 1) * 1589, Robert Greene, Menaphon’s Eclogue in Menaphon, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1814, p. 63,
 * Seld speaketh Love, but sighs his secret pains;
 * Tears are his trucemen, words do make him tremble:
 * How sweet is love to them that can dissemble,
 * In thoughts and looks, till they have reap’d the gains!
 * 1) * 1593,, The Legend of Piers Gaveston, cited in J. Payne Collier (editor), Illustrations of Early English Poetry, Volume 4, 1870, p. 163,
 * O Hope! how cunning with our cares to gloze
 * Griefes breathing poynt, the truceman to desire,
 * The rest in sighes, the very thoughts repose;
 * As thou art milde, oh! wert thou not a lier?
 * As thou art milde, oh! wert thou not a lier?