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A fool; not a natural, but a wilful fool, or a wicked son.
The father; and consequently the mother also.
Hath no joy, which parents usually have in the birth of a child, and especially of a son; but hath great cause of sorrow, the contrary being implied in this and such-like expressions, as in Scripture, as Pro_10:2, &c., so also in profane authors; whose words see in my Latin Synopsis.