Fooled to dread

• "fools rush in where angels fear to tread": Alexander Pope's An Essay on criticism, 1709: also mentioned in Ulysses: "And later on at a propitious opportunity he purposed (Bloom did), without anyway prying into his private affairs on the 'fools step in where angels' principle, advising him to sever his connection with a certain budding practitioner."
• dreadful fool