counsels

n. (pl.) confidences,secrets 机密，秘密。
△Ado.3.3.91(86):“Keep your fellows’counsels andyour own，”要保守你们同僚的和你们自己的机密。(按：此处戏用英国大陪审团的誓词。)
△Mid.3.2.308: “keep yourcounsels，”为你保守秘密。
△H.V.2.2.96:“Thou thatdidst bear the key of all my counsels,/ That knew’stthe very bottom of my soul，” i.e. You that were mymost intimate friend. 你掌握了我的一切秘密，你了解我心灵深处的想法。
△R.III.4.2.42: “The deep-revolving,witty Buckingham / No more shall be the neighbourto my counsels.”这个深思熟虑、诡计多端的白金汉再也不能参与我的机密了。