fool-born

“My lesson for the day: read posts carefully before replying with a fool-born jest.”

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“I was on the point of saying, "Reply not to me with a fool-born jest.”

Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife

“-- _Answer not to me with a fool-born jest_, as your poor friend”

The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford

“But on taking in his hand that one of these two new dramatic pamphlets which might first attract him either by its double novelty as a never acted play or by a title of yet more poetic and romantic associations than its fellow's, such a purchaser as I have supposed, with his mind full of the sweet rich fresh humour which he would feel a right to expect from Shakespeare, could hardly have undergone less than a qualm or a pang of strong disrelish and distaste on finding one of the two leading comic figures of the play break in upon it at his entrance not even with "a fool-born jest," but with full-mouthed and foul-mouthed effusion of such rank and rancorous personalities as might properly pollute the lips even of some emulous descendant or antiquarian reincarnation of Thersites, on application or even apprehension of a whip cracked in passing over the assembled heads of a pseudocritical and mock-historic society.”

A Study of Shakespeare

“Well, it all comes to the same thing, for there isn't much difference between fool-born and fool-manufactured.”

Stella Fregelius