Qui sembloit bien estre ypocrite,
Papelardie est appellée,” &c.
Le Rom. de la Rose, vol. i. 15. ed. 1735.
Roquefort (Gloss. de la Langue Romaine) cites these lines under “Papelardie, papelardise: Hypocrisie, tromperie, subtilité, mauvaise foi.” See too Du Cange’s Gloss. in vv. Papelardia, Papelardus. Compare also Lydgate;
“And for popholy and uyce loke wel aboute.”
The prohemy of a mariage, &c.,—MS. Harl. 372. fol. 51.
and Barclay;
“Ouer sad or proude, disceitfull and pope holy.”
The Ship of Fooles, fol. 57. ed. 1570.
and the Interlude of the iiii Elementes, n. d.;