A select glossary of English words used formerly in senses different from their present

by Richard Chenevix Trench

And to the world and awkward casualties

Bound me in servitude.

Id., Pericles, Prince of Tyre, act v. sc. 1.

Babe,	}
Baby.

‘Doll’ is of late introduction into the English language, is certainly later than Dryden. ‘Babe,’ ‘baby,’ or puppet supplied its place.

True religion standeth not in making, setting up, painting, gilding, clothing, and decking of dumb and dead images, which be but great puppets and babies for old fools, in dotage and wicked idolatry, to dally and play with.—Homilies; Against Peril of Idolatry.

Babes of clouts are good enough to keep children from crying.—Fuller, Holy War, b. iv. c. 17.

But all as a poore pedler he did wend,

Bearing a trusse of tryfles at hys backe,

As bells, and babes, and glasses in hys packe.