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I would she had bestowed this dotage on me: I would have daffed all other respects and made her half myself.

Much Ado About Nothing 2004

Left thus for long spaces in the company of Betty and the child, that daffed and croodled about her, and even became warmly friendly with me for the sake of my Paris watch and my glittering waistcoat buttons, I made many gallant attempts to get on my old easy footing.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

I would she had bestowed this dotage on me; I would have daffed all other respects and made her half myself.

Act II. Scene III. Much Ado about Nothing 1914

Vast affairs might not be daffed aside for the laird of Glenfernie's convenience!

Foes Mary Johnston 1903

Banquo he kills is not the innocent soldier who met the Witches and daffed their prophecies aside, nor the man who prayed to be delivered from the temptation of his dreams.

Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth 1893

But if the gods are beyond our ken, and if the world to come is misty, we still have this world with us; a world not always to be daffed aside with love and wine and comradeship, since behind its frolic wantonness lie the ennobling claims of duty and of conscience.

Horace William Tuckwell 1874

Even the heroic personages are fitly shown in an unheroic aspect: we see them but in their unbendings, when they have daffed their martial robes aside, to lead the train of day-dreamers, and have a nuptial jubilee.

Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872

Even the heroic personages are fitly shown in an unheroic aspect: we see them but in their unbendings, when they have daffed their martial robes aside, to lead the train of day-dreamers, and have a nuptial jubilee.

Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Henry Norman Hudson 1850

I would she had bestowed this dotage on me: I would have daffed all other respects and made her half myself.

Much Ado About Nothing 1598

And as it struck him that they daffed the world aside and lived more lightheartedly than any others that he knew, as indeed they did, he enquired of not a few folk as to their rank.

The Decameron, Volume II Giovanni Boccaccio 1344