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 Proverbs 10:2, &c., so also in profane authors; whose words see in my Latin Synopsis.
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Proverbs 17:21
21 He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.