What is "foole"

Usage examples of "foole".

CLER: Ay, if we can hold up the emulation betwixt Foole and Daw, and never bring them to expostulate.

Nowe they which will looke higher, they see a Figure in a tryne aspect, and the higher that they goe towardes the toppe, where the vnion of the three is, be they neuer so wise, their vnderstanding is vnperfect: and although that they see it, yet they knowe not what they see, but that there is such a thing, in comparison whereof, they are fooles, theyr power weake, and themselues nothing.

On the recto of leaf 259: Thus endeth the Ship of Fooles, translated .

As he declared these things, I did greatly lament with my selfe, to thinke of mine old and pristine estate, and what felicity I was sometimes in, in comparison to the misery that I presently susteined, being changed into a miserable Asse, then had I no small occasion to remember, how the old and ancient Writers did affirme, that fortune was starke blind without eies, because she alwaies bestoweth her riches upon evil persons, and fooles, and chooseth or favoureth no mortall person by judgement, but is alwaies conversent, especially with much as if she could see, she should most shunne, and forsake, yea and that which is more worse, she sheweth such evill or contrary opinions in men, that the wicked doe glory with the name of good, and contrary the good and innocent be detracted and slandred as evill.

I would fill my guts with these goodly dishes : neither was I so much a foole, or so very an Asse, to leave the dainty meats, and to grind my teeth upon hard hay.

When Psyches was returned from hell, to the light of the world, shee was ravished with great desire, saying, Am not I a foole, that knowing that I carrie here the divine beauty, will not take a little thereof to garnish my face, to please my love withall?

With that the foole, which did that end awayte,Came running in, and whilest on ground he lay,Laide heauy hands on him, and held so strayte,That downe he kept him with his scornefull sway,So as he could not weld him any way.

If I doe such things as I canot give reasons for, it is like you have sett a foole aboute your bussines, and so turne ye reproofe to your selves, & send an other, and let me come againe to my Combes.

But civill Societies are not meer Meetings, but Bonds, to the making whereof, Faith and Compacts are necessary: The Vertue whereof to Children, and Fooles, and the profit whereof to those who have not yet tasted the miseries which accompany its defects, is altogether unknown.

And when they had shut their chamber doore, and went to the bains : (O Lord) how I would fill my guts with these goodly dishes : neither was I so much a foole, or so very an Asse, to leave the dainty meats, and to grind my teeth upon hard hay.