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It went: Mairzy doats and dozy doats And liddle lamzy divey.

From Time Magazine Archive

The old man has feeling left in him; and the mother doats upon her namby-pamby boy.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various

Sir Philip may have cause for hate;—spite of his unkindness to me, my heart seeks to find excuses for him—oh! that heart doats on his lovely daughter.

From Speed the Plough A Comedy, In Five Acts; As Performed At The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden by Morton, Thomas

Therefore it is that Levana often communes with the powers that shake man's heart: therefore it is that she doats upon grief.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various

Mr. Spectator, I am a young Woman of Beauty and Quality, and suitably married to a Gentleman who doats on me.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph