Nesting birds pluck some of their own feathers to line the nest, but feather plucking in pet birds is entirely different.

That albeit the care of Religion toward God, in a vindicative and punishing way, and reforming it, &c. lyeth upon the King or Magistrates mainly, (he should have said onely, for none can produce a commission, but the Powers ordained of God, for using the vindicative, punitive and reforming Sword, […]

You're jest about the very woman I'm looking for, miss. Lithe—that's what I call you. I kin put you in the way of making your pile, I kin. This is a bonâ-fide offer. No flies on my business!

According to this tradition, acts of deception that are mere misleadings are morally better than acts of deception that are lies.