Which is the best meaning of the word covert in the following sentence? antony and octavius make covert plans to stay in power. question 33 options: public secret simple complicated

Read the passage. and thus they fought all the long day, and never stinted till the noble knights were laid to the cold earth. and ever they fought still till it was near night, and by then was there a hundred thousand laid dead upon the down. in the passage from morte d’arthur by sir thomas malory, what are the bolded words an example of?