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"I do wonder, Thou naughty gaoler, that thou art so fond To come abroad with him at his request;" |
Milton, S. A. 812: "fond and reasonless," etc. This appears to be the original meaning of the word. In Wiclif's Bible. 1 Cor. i. 27, we have "the thingis that ben fonnyd of the world." In Twelfth Night, ii. 2, the word is used as a verb=dote:
| "And I, poor monster, fond as much on him, As she, mistaken, seems to dote on me." |
[49.] Hurd quotes Cowley:
| "Night and her ugly subjects thou dost fright, And Sleep, the lazy owl of night; Asham'd and fearful to appear, They screen their horrid shapes with the black hemisphere." |
Wakefield cites Milton, Hymn on Nativity, 233 foll.: "The flocking shadows pale," etc. See also P. R. iv. 419-431.
[50.] Birds of boding cry. Cf. Green's Grotto: "news the boding night-birds tell."
[52.] Gray refers to Cowley, Brutus:
| "One would have thought 't had heard the morning crow, Or seen her well-appointed star. Come marching up the eastern hill afar." |