Both Uses of
fawn
in
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Bestow thy fawning smiles on equal mates, And think my patience, more than thy desert, Is privilege for thy departure hence.†
Scene 3.1 *
- When I protest true loyalty to her, She twits me with my falsehood to my friend; When to her beauty I commend my vows, She bids me think how I have been forsworn In breaking faith with Julia whom I lov'd; And notwithstanding all her sudden quips, The least whereof would quell a lover's hope, Yet, spaniel-like, the more she spurns my love The more it grows and fawneth on her still.†
Scene 4.2
Definition:
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(fawn as in: fawned all over her) showing excessive flattery or affection