" She had put aside alike the drolling and the palliative suggestion, like flimsy veils.

He drolled upon the stock of these two syllables richer than the cuckoo.

He drolled upon the stock of these two syllables richer than the cuckoo.

Anthony Wood, writing at the time of its appearance, classes it with 'the fooleries, playes, poems, and drolling books,' with which, as he bitterly complains, people were 'taken with' coupling with it Marvell's Rehearsal Transposed and Butler's Hudibras.

After this, the father enters to the daughter; and now the Scene is in a House: for he is seeking, from one room to another, for his poor PHILIPIN or French DIEGO: who is heard from within, drolling, and breaking many a miserable conceit upon his sad condition.

Well, my drolling lady, I may be even with you.