fond (adj.)
foolish, stupid, mad
1H6 II.iii.44[Talbot to Countess] I laugh to see your ladyship so fond
1H6 V.iii.81[Suffolk to himself] Fond man, remember that thou hast a wife
2H4 I.iii.91[Archbishop to all, of the people] O thou fond many, with what loud applause / Didst thou beat heaven with blessing Bolingbroke
2H6 III.i.36[Queen to King, of the dangers of Gloucester] If it be fond, call it a woman's fear
2H6 III.i.74[Queen to King, of the King's loyalty to Gloucester] what's more dangerous than this fond affiance?
AYL II.iii.7[Adam to Orlando, of Charles] Why would you be so fond to overcome / The bonny prizer
Cor IV.i.26[Coriolanus to Menenius] 'Tis fond to wail inevitable strokes, / As 'tis to laugh at 'em
JC III.i.39[Caesar to Metellus] Be not fond, / To think that Caesar bears such rebel blood
KL I.ii.49[Gloucester reading Edgar's supposed letter] I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny
KL I.iv.298[Lear as if to his eyes] Old fond eyes, / Beweep this cause again
KL IV.vii.60[Lear to Cordelia] I am a very foolish fond old man
Luc.1094[] True grief is fond and testy as a child
Luc.134[] Those that much covet are with gain so fond / That what they have not, that which they possess, / They scatter and unloose it from their bond
MM I.iii.23[Duke to Friar Thomas] as fond fathers, / Having bound up the threatening twigs ... / For terror, not to use
MM V.i.105[Duke to Isabella] fond wretch
MND II.ii.94[Helena to herself] I am out of breath in this fond chase
MV III.iii.9[Shylock to Gaoler] I do wonder ... that thou art so fond / To come abroad with him at his request
R2 V.i.101[Richard to Queen Isabel] We make woe wanton with this fond delay [also: sense 3]
R2 V.ii.95[York to Duchess of York] Thou fond, mad woman
R3 III.iv.81[Hastings to himself, of his imminent execution] I, too fond, might have prevented this
R3 V.iii.331[King Richard to his army, of the enemy] dreaming on this fond exploit
RJ III.iii.53[Friar to Romeo] Thou fond mad man, hear me a little speak [or: sense 4]
Sonn.3.7[] who is he so fond will be the tomb / Of his self-love to stop posterity?
Tim I.ii.63[Apemantus's grace] Grant I may never prove so fond / To trust man on his oath or bond
Tim III.v.43[Alcibiades to Senators] Why do fond men expose themselves to battle, / And not endure all threats?
Tit II.iii.172[Tamora to Lavinia] What begg'st thou then, fond woman?
WT IV.i.18[Time to audience, of Leontes] Th'effects of his fond jealousies so grieving / That he shuts up himself
WT IV.iv.423[Polixenes to Florizel] fond boy
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