John-a-dreams

John-a-dreams
a man who is a daydreamer and therefore inactive

[...] Yet I, / A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak / Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, / and can say nothing.

Syn: John-a-nokes, John-a-stiles

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