46. _Fond complaint_. Foolish complaint. Cf. Shakes. _M. of V._ iii.
3:
"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."