Note to The Taming of the Shrew, 5.1.117: "While counterfeit supposes blear'd thine eyne."

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supposes: suppositions, false appearances, conjectures. —This is an an allusion to Gascoigne's play Supposes (itself based on Ariosto's I Suppositi), from which Shakespeare took the Lucentio-Bianca plot.