dotage

"More care!" said the old man. […] There were in his face marks of deep and anxious thought which convinced me that he could not be, as I had been at first inclined to suppose, in a state of dotage or imbecility.

Claudio. And ſhe is exceeding wiſe.

Prince. In euery thing, but in louing Benedicke. […] I would ſhee had beſtowed this dotage on mee,

the ſapleſs dotages of old Paris and Salamanca.