"Glozing" carries the sense of flattery (and hence of perversion of
truth),
right? So there might be an inherent connection between
glow-worms/glose-worms and the "changeable counsellors" not just in
terms of
their changeability, but in terms of their ability to "gloze."
I would be interested to learn if early modern writers suspect that
glosses
are themselves a form of glozing.
Katherine Eggert
Associate Professor of English
Director of Graduate Studies
University of Colorado, Boulder
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