| The lovely maid on whom I doat, Has made a spencer of my coat. |
| No, my Sophia, if cruel fortune separates us for ever, my soul shall doat on thee alone. |
| Learn, that in the west we love the infantry, doat on the dragoons, but we adore the staff. |
| Why should I doat upon a man deserves not, Nor has no will to work it? |
| People are wonderfully clever, I think, and as for Talleyrand I doat upon him. |
| We build castles in the air, and night-dreams are our daily idols that we doat on. |
