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Once more, harmonious, strike the sounding string,
Th' Epean fabric, fam'd by Pallas, sing;
How stern Ulysses, furious to destroy,
With latent heroes sack'd imperial Troy.

Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. viii.

She found the polish'd glass whose small convex
Enlarges to ten million of degrees

The mite, invisible else, of Nature's hand
Least animal; and shows what laws of life
The cheese-inhabitants obserue, and how
Fabric their mansion in the harden'd milk,
Wonderful artists!

J. Philips. Cider, b. i.

As he was not vain enough to think, that any Bill he coald fabricate would be perfect, or that a Bill containing so large a number of various regulations would not call for much discussion, and even some alteration, he certainly would give due time for gentlemen to consider the subject.

Fox. Speech on the East India Bills, (Nov. 27, 1783.) The very idea of the fabrication of a new government, is enough to fill us with disgust and horrour. Burke. On the French Revolution.

The Revolution Society, the fabricators of governments, the heroick band of cashierers of monarchs, electors of sovereigns, and leaders of kings in triumph, strutting with a proud consciousness of the diffusion of knowledge, of which every member had obtained so large a share in the donative, were in haste to make a generous diffusion of the knowledge they had thus gratuitously received.-Id. Ib.

The distracted inhabitants of the world will fly to us for sanctuary, driven out of their countries from the dreadful consequence of not attending to seasonable reforms in government; victims to the folly of suffering corruptions to continue, till the whole fabric of society is dissolved and tumbles into ruin.-Erskine. Trial of Thomas Hardy.

FA BURDEN. Fr. Faux-bourdon, which Cotgrave calls, the drone of a bag-pipe.

Nor the great belles he ronge after that, nor yet the freshe liscante, prycksonge, counter point, and faburden be called for; in the whiche are the verye synagoge of Sathan.

Bale. Image, pt. iii. What is the cause that it was a custom among the maidens of the Botticans in their dancing, to sing, as it sere, the faburden of a song: Go we to Athens. Holland. Plutarch, p. 735.

FACE, v. Fr. Face It. Faccia; Sp. FACE, n. Haz; Lat. Facies, from facere, to FA'CING, n. do, to make. Facies proprie idem FACADE. sit, quod factura, say Vossius and Nonius. Facies est forma omnis et modus, et actura quædam corporis totius; a faciendo dicta, Aul. Gellius, xxiii. 29.) The whole form and nanner, and the make or composition of the whole rame or body; so called from facere, to form or rame. Face, the

noun,

is

The general form or appearance. Then applied to, the exterior or superficial apearance; the front view, the countenance; the ront or forepart of the head; and also, emphatially, to a good, confident, or bold face, with a ubaudition of the adjectives.

But since she did neglect her looking-glasse,
And threw her sun-expelling masque away,
The ayre had staru'd the roses in her cheekes,
And pinch'd the lilly tincture of her face,
That now she is become as blacke as I.

Shakespeare. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act iv. sc. 4.

Or do you think

Your tawny coats, with greasy facings here
Shall conquer it ?-Barry. Merry Tricks, Act iii. sc. 1.
Did you ever in your life know an ill painter
Desire to have his dwelling next doore to the shop
Of an excellent picture-maker? 'twould disgrace
His face-making, and undo him.

Webster. The Dutchesse of Malfy, Act iii. sc. 2. On the 26th of this, [October,] was this murderer hanged, for more terror, at Charing Cross, in the very face of the court, though five hundred crowns had been offered by the strangers, his country men, to save his life.

Strype. Memorials. Queen Mary, an. 1554.

The times were no more, when a Dryden or a Swift, in support of ministers and courts, alone faced legions, and fought them with advantage.

Maty. Memoirs of Lord Chesterfield, s. 4.

While the men wore shoes so long and picked, that they were forced to support the points by chains from their middle; the ladies erected such pyramids on their heads, that the face became the center of the body.

Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. i. c. 2. FACET. Fr. Facette, diminutive of face; a small face or surface.

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Honour, that is gained and broken upon another, hath the quickest reflection; like diamonds cut with fascets. Bacon. Ess. Of Honour & Reputation.

FACE/TE, adj. FACE'TELY. FACE TENESS. FACE TIOUS.

FACE TIOUSLY.

Fr. Facétieux; It. Facetioso, faceto; Lat. Facetus, which Donatus thinks is from Facere; facetus est, qui facit verbis, quod vult. Aliis facetus, quia imitando se alium facit. But Perottus, inasmuch as facetic has respect to words and not to deeds, derives from fari, to speak.

FACE TIOUSNESS.

Facetiousness implies, good humour or cheerfulness combined with wit.

Barrow (see the quotation from him) gives an elaborate and copious description of it. (Sermon against Foolish Talking or Jesting.)

Lodovicus Suessanus, a facete companion, disswaded him to the contrary.-Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 149. They are the chiefe seats of love, and as James Lernutius hath facetely expressed in an elegant ode of his, &c. Id. Ib. p. 461.

Parables do not only by their plainness open the understanding, but they work upon the affections, and breed delight of hearing by the reason of that faceteness and wittiness which is many times found in them, by reason of which they insinuate themselves, and creep into us, and ere we are aware work that end for which they were delivered. Hale. Rem. Ser. Luke, xviii. 1. Next, the word politician is not used to his maw, and

Façade,-It. Facciata; Fr. Façade, facies do- thereupon he plays the most notorious hobby horse, jesting us, the front or frontispiece of a house;-a comon term in architecture.

That blod adoun wende

So vaste in eye, and in face, that hym ney ablende.
R. Gloucester, p. 208.
And made him a loute al adoun, is face vpe on the ston.
Id. p. 476.
No non so faire of face, of spech so lufty.
R. Brunne, p. 30.
Bold was hire face, and fayre and rede of hew.
Chaucer. The Prologue, v. 460.

Solinus speketh of a wonder kinde,
And saith of foules there is one,
Whiche hath a face of bloode and bone,
Like to a man in resemblance.

Gower, Con. A. b. iii.

I have here in thys fyrst part alreadye broughte you for e trewe fayth of the Catholike churche, agaynst your false resy, wherewith you would face our Sauiour out of the essed sacrament: I haue brought agaynst you to your ice, Saint Bede, and Theophylacius.

Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1132.
And he sayde furthermore: thou mayst not see my face
or there shal no man see me and lyue.
Bible, 1551. Exodus, c. 33.

For there thou needs must learne to laugh, to lie,
To face, to forge, to scoffe, to companie.

Spenser. Mother Hubberd's Tale.

For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkess, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowedge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Bible. 2 Cor. iv. 6.

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His [Thomas Bastard's] discourses were always pleasant and facete, which made his company desired by all ingenious men.-Wood. Athena Oxon.

In deliberations and debates about affairs of great importance, the simple manner of speaking to the point is the proper, easie, clear, and compendious way: facetious speech there serves onely to obstruct and entangle business, to lose time, and to protract the result.-Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 14.

B. answers very facetiously: I must own that a command to lend, hoping for nothing again, and a command to borrow, without returning any thing again, seem very different commands.-Waterland. Works, vol. vi. p. 86.

But first it may be demanded, What the thing we speak of is, or what this facetiousness doth import? To which question I might reply, as Democritus did to him that asked the definition of a man, 'Tis that which we all see and know any one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance, than I can inform him by description.

Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 14.

On the reputation, however, of that education, by his singing, excellent mimickry, and facetious spirit, he [Worsdale] gained many patrons and business, and was appointed master-painter to the Board of Ordnance.

Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. iv. c. 3. Magnificent in his living, reserved in his conversation, grave in his common deportment, but relaxing with a wise facetiousness, he [William I.] knew how to relieve his mind and preserve his dignity.

Burke. Abridgement of English History, an. 1087.

FACILE. FACILENESS. FA'CILY. FACILITATE, V. FACILITATION. FACILITY.

Fr. Facile; It. Facile; Sp. Facil; Lat. Facilis, contracted from facibilis, that can or may be done; and thus, easy to be done, easily done.

Easy to be done or made, performed or accomplished; and applied to persons who have no hard or harsh, austere or repulsive qualities; who are affable, easy of access; easily persuaded or prevailed upon.

The principal cause of this my lyttell enterpryse, is to declare an induction or meane, howe children of gentyll nature or disposition may be trayned into the way of vertue with a pleasant facilite.-Sir T. Elyot. Governor, c. 22

And let ourselues againe but vnderstand,
That as it more concernes the Turke then Rhodes,
So may he with more facile question beare it.
Shakespeare. Othello, Act i. sc. 3.

If from this houre
Within these hallow'd limits thou appeer,
Back to th' infernal pit I drag thee chain'd.
And seale the so, as henceforth not to scorne
The facil gates of hell too slightly barr'd.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. iv.

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His royall person, that he shooke shoutes from the Greekes, with thirst,

That he should conquer though hee flew.

Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. xxiii. They persuade themselves that your majesty [K. of Denmark] for this reason, will take those counsels in reference to this republic, which may facilitate the good success of those things propounded by your majesty to ourselves so desirous of your amity.-Milton. Let. of State, April, 1652.

A generall habit of sincerity, when it is referred to religious uses, proves a facilitation towards fidelity and perseverence in them.

Mountague. Devoute Essayes, pt. i. Treat. 10. s. 6. P. Broth. Yes, yes, yes, she'll take still; she has a kind of facility in taking. How comes your hand bloody, sir? Middleton. A Mad World, my Masters, Act iii. And when once a man hath attained to such a sense of God as this is, all other acts of piety will be facile and easy to him for indeed he cannot but exert them.

Beveridge, vol. ii. Ser. 91. Upon occasion of this communication, the ambassadors mixt such discourse as might serve to facilitate somewhat more to be attained of that court for the said college [Oxon.] Strype. Memorials. Hen. VIII. an. 1528. Which, though of divers kinds, may (to add towards the facilitations of trials) be made of a very conspicuous colour, by the self-same metal, copper.-Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 497.

It breeds up a nursery of watermen, which upon occasion will prove good seamen ; and with much facility maintaine intercourse and communion between cities and countries.

Parl. Hist. Chas. II. an. 1664. The Speaker's Speech. Obedience becomes facile, and facility communicates the pleasures of habit.-Cogan. Ethical Treat. pt. ii. Dis. 2. c. 3.

If terms were offered to the Americans before it was too

late, they might perhaps accept them: at least it would be

doing no more than justice required at our hands; it would detach many of them from the congress, and by dividing them, facilitate a conquest.

Fox. Speech. On the King's Speech, 18th Nov. 1777. It is evident that the earliest searchers after knowledge must have proposed knowledge only as their reward; and that science, though perhaps the nurseling of interest, was the daughter of curiosity: for who can believe that they who first watched the course of the stars, foresaw the use of their discoveries to the facilitation of commerce, or the mensura

tion of time?-Rambler, No. 103.

Some gentlemen are not terrified by the facility with which government has been overturned in France.

Burke. Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs. FACINOROUS. Lat. Facinorosus, formed from facinus, oris; and this, from fac-ere, to do ;any act or deed; subsequently applied, to a wicked act or deed.

Wicked, to an excess. See an example from Feltham in v. Epidemick.

And although in ye adepcion and obteining of ye garlāde I being seduced and prouoked by sinister cousail and diabolical temptació did commyt a facynerous and detestable acte.-Hall. Rich. III. an. 3.

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FACT. FACTION. FACTIONARY. FACTIONER. FACTIONIST. FACTIOUS. FACTIOUSLY. FACTIOUSNESS. FACTITIOUS. FACTIVE. FACTOR. FACTORESS. FACTORY. FACTURE.

FACULTY.

Fr. Faict or Fait; It. Fatto; Sp. Hecho; Lat. Factum, from Facere, to do; any thing done. (The Lat. Ag-ere, aug-ere; Gr. Ay-ew, appear to be the Goth. Auc-an; A. S. Eac-an; and the Lat. Facere (c, hard; -fag-ere, g, hard) to be the A. S. Feg-an,itself formed of the A. S. Eacan, to eke, and the prefix, Be, successively corrupted into pe, p, ph, (,) ƒ¡-thus, f-eac-an, f-eg-an. See F, and FAG.)

Fact, any thing do-ed or done; a deed, an act. Faction, applied to those who would do one thing in opposition to those who would do another. A party.

Facultas (from the obsolete facul) and facilitas (from facilis,) (see FACILE,) were originally the same, and only distinguished by usage. Facultates, sunt aut quibus facilius fit, aut sine quibus omnino confici non potest. (Cic. de Inven. lib. ii. 40.)

Faculty, is that by which any thing may be done more easily, or without which it cannot be done at all; power, ability, capability.

It is applied to the professors or practitioners of a science to the science; as the faculty of medicine. For unto swiche a worthy man as he Accordeth nought, as by faculte, To haven with sike lazars acquaintance. Chaucer. The Prologue, v. 244. For it is no godly poyncte for to cast a man headlong into the ryuer, yt by deliueryng of him thou mayest seme to be a man of great feacts: but it is a godly thing to plucke out him yt chaunce is fallen in.-Udal. Matthew, c. 4.

In Gallea, not onely in all cityes, and in al villages, and al quarters, but also almost in euerye house are factions. And the heades of theis factions are they, whom they esteme worthyest to have it.-Goldyng. Cæsar, fol. 153.

But because he liued not longe, he coulde not proceede farre in his factious doinges, which tainted the Romaine prelates shamefully at this time especiallye.

Bale. The Pageant of Popes, fol. 60. Therfor muste they be more cleane than the other, for they are the factours, or bayliffes of God.-Id. Apol. fol. 74.

First it is to be vnderstood, that the ships for the voyage to St. Nicholas, in Russia, in which the factors and merchandize for the Persian voiage were transported, departed from Grauesend the 19th of June, 1579, which arrived at S. Nicholas in Russia, the 22d of July, where the factors and merchants landed, and merchandize were discharged. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 419.

He was one of them that had the charge of the kinge's person, a valyant man of warre, and yet more famous in the faculties of peace.-Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 277. When he who most excells in fact of arms, In what he counsels and in what excels Mistrustful, grounds his courage on despair And utter dissolution, as the scope Of all his aim, after some dire revenge.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ii.

I sing the civil wars, tumultuous broils,
And bloody factions of a mighty land;
Whose people haughty, proud with foreign foils,

Upon themselves turn back their conq'ring hand.
Daniel. Civil Wars, b. i.
Men. Prythee, fellow, remember my name is Menenius,
always factionary on the party of your generall.
Shakespeare. Coriolanus, Act v. sc. 2.

I see zealous professors transformed to key-cold worldlings; reformed Catholicks turned to Romish factionists.

Bp. Hall. The Estate of a Christian. A Sermon. This speech of his, the lesse that it favoured of factious partialitie and affection, the more auctoritie and sway it carried with it.-Holland. Livivs, p. 528.

Glasses are sometime made hereof, and it becomes the chiefest ground for artificial and factitious gemms. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. i. c. 1. Your majesty is a king whose heart is as unscrutable for secret motions of goodness, as for depth of wisdom. You ere creator-like, factive, and not destructive.

Bacon. To the King, (James I.) Let. 276.

My factor sends me word a merchant's fled
That owes me for a hundred tun of wine.
Marlow. The Jew of Malta, Act ii.

Heere [Sofala] the Portugals haue on a little island
(whence the whole kingdome hath his name) a fort and
factorie of very rich trade, the people bringing great quan-
tity of gold (whereof they haue plentifull mines) for their
cloth and other commodities.
Purchas. Pilgrimage, b. vii. c. 7. s. 3.

I scent your cruel mercies,
Your factress hath been tamp'ring for my misery;
Your old temptation; your shee-devil.

Ford. The Fancies, Chaste & Noble, Act iii. sc. 2. And as to the diversity of parts, there is no doubt but the facture or framing of the inward parts is as full of difference as the outward.-Bacon. On Learning, b. ii.

Her soul is so immense,

And her strong faculties so apprehensive,
To search into the depth of deep designs,
And of all natures, that the burthen, which
To many men were insupportable,
To her is but a gentle exercise,
Made, by the frequent use, familiar to her.

Massinger. The Emperor of the East, Acti. sc. 1.
Lor. Allow her fair, her symmetry and feature
So well proportion'd, as the heavenly object
With admiration would strike Ovid dumb,
Nay, force him to forget his faculty
In verse, and celebrate her praise in prose.

Id. The Bashful Lover, Act iv. sc. 1. In a body, when the blood is fresh, the spirits pure and vigorous, not only to vital, but to rational faculties, and

those in the acutest, and the pertest operations of wit and suttlety, it argues in what good plight and constitution the

body is.-Milton. Of Unlicensed Printing. This Duncane

Hath borne his faculties so meeke.

Shakespeare. Macbeth, Acti. sc. 7.

It would have been absurd to allege, in preaching to unbelievers, a fact which itself presupposed the truth of Christ's mission; and which could not have been proved without first taking for granted the truth of that very doctrine, in proof of which this fact was to have been alleged.

Clarke, vol. ii. Ser. 69. Not that Paul, and Apollos, and Cephas, were themselves the persons, about whom the factions were really raised: but, (as may well be gathered from what he adds at the conclusion,) he puts the case of other teachers in his own, and Peter's, and Apollo's name; that under that representation, he might reprove the unreasonableness of the Corinthian factions, the more inoffensively and the more effectually.

Id. Ser. 139.

All the factioners had entered into a seditious conspiracy. Bp. Bancroft. Dangerous Positions. He [Dr. Stile] was a man of courage and spirit, and kept a strict hand over the growing factionists. Strype. Life of Abp. Whilgift, an. 1576. Christianity is an humble, quiet, peaceable, and orderly religion; not noisy or ostentatious, not assuming or censorious, not factious or tumultuous; they who think other wise of it, are altogether strangers to it.

Waterland. Works, vol. vi. p. 376. Lord Hyde. You of the jury, you see the indictment is for causing a libellous and seditious book to be printed, under such a title, that is, "The Speeches and Prayers, &c. :" it is for causing this, seditiously, factiously, and wickedly, to be printed; and for selling and publishing it abroad to the king's people.-State Trials. Sim. Dover & others, an. 1663.

If our work and office be attended with this difficulty, sure it is your duty to pity us, to pray for us, to encourage us by all possible ways and means, to the vigorous performance of it; at least not to add to our load, or discourage us, either by your wayward factiousness, or stubborn profaneness, or sacrilegious injustice.-Bp. Bull, vol. i. Ser. 6.

The king, about a year after, seemed to make him his merchant, and granted him a licence, under the name of Sir Anthony Guidot, his factors and attorneys, to transport and carry over beyond seas woollen cloths, and kersies, &c. Strype. Mem. Edw. VI. an. 1549.

For gain has wonderful effects, T'improve the factory of sects.-Hudibras, pt. iii. c. 2. For man's natural powers and faculties, even as they were before the fall, entire, were not sufficient or able of themselves to reach such a supernatural end, but needed the power of the divine Spirit to strengthen, elevate, and raise them thereunto.-Bp. Bull, vol. ii. Disc. 5.

It is true, that one man is charmed with Don Bellianis, and reads Virgil coldly: whilst another is transported with the Eneid, and leaves Don Bellianis to children. These two men seem to have a taste very different from each other; but in fact they differ very little.-Burke. On Taste, Introd.

The members of the court faction are fully indemnified for not holding places on the slippery heights of the kingdem, not only by the lead in all affairs, but also by the perfect security in which they enjoy less conspicuous, but very advantageous situations.-Id. On the Present Discontents.

Another thing will be of use to the administration, which is, that factious and seditious spirit that has appeared of late, in petitions, associations, &c. which shocks all sober

thinking people, and will hinder them from going so far as otherwise they would have gone.

Chesterfield. Miscell. Works, vol. iv. Let. 91. The opposition, whether patriotically or factiously, contending that the ministers had been oblivious of the national glory, and had made improper sacrifices of that publick interest, which they were bound not only to preserve, but by all fair methods to augment.-Burke. Reg. Peace, Let. 3. I have added sweets, from which our factitious wines are made.-Id. Ib.

The house in Leadenhall-street is nothing more than a change for their agents, factors, and deputies to meet in, to take care of their affairs, and support their interests. Id. On Mr. Fox's East India Bill.

Instead of this, he totally sequestered himself from his country; and, abandoning all appearance of state, he took up his residence in an ordinary house, which he purchased in the suburbs of the Company's factory at Madras.

Id. Speech on the Nabob of Arcot's Debts, Adv.

With boundless will

Let Self maintain her state and empire still, But let her, with more worthy objects caught, Strain all the faculties and force of thought To things of higher daring.-Churchill. The Conference. The obstinacy of Lord Chesterfield's deafness, which increased every day, and disqualified him more and more for society, had induced him to yield to the repeated advice of the faculty, to try whether any benefit could be obtained from a journey to Spa.-Maty. Mem. of L. Chesterfield, s. 6.

FACUND. From Lat. Fari, to speak. Fa. FACUNDOUS.cundus, so said, quia facile ornateque fatur, (Vossius.) And thus equivalent toEloquent, (qv.)

Discrete she was in answering alway,
Though she were wise as Pallas, dare I sain,
Hire facounde eke ful womanly and plain,
No counterfeted termes hadd she

To semen wise.-Chaucer. The Doctoures Tale, v. 11,954.
Of eloquence was neuer found
So swete a sowning facound
Ne trewer tonged.

Id. Dreame This Richard was a man of meruelous qualities, and f cundious facions.-Hall. Hen. VI. an. 33.

FA'DING, n.
FADE, v.
FADE, adj.

FA'DELESS.
FA'DINGNESS.
FA'DY.

Kilian says Vadden, deflorere, deflorescere, flacces cere; Eng. to fade. Vaddig, flaccidus; Fr. Fade; Eng. Faded. Junius derives from the Fr. Fade, insipidus; ar this he and Menage from the Lat. Fatuus. our older writers the word is also written with r,Vade. See the quotation from the Mirror for Magistrates, and the last from Udal. To decay, to decrease, to languish; to wither, to expire; to wither away, to vanish, to disappear.

So feble and eke so olde was she,

That faded was all her beautie.-Chaucer. Rom. of the B
And thus whan that the light is faded,
And vesper sheweth hym alofte,
And that the night is longe and softe
Under the cloudes derke and stille.
Than hath this thynge most of his wille.

And saw comyng ageine his chare,
Two pilgremes of so great age,
That like vnto a drie image
That weren pale and fade hewed.

Gower. Con. 4. b. iv.

Id. Ib. b. i. My writhled cheekes bewraye that pride of heate is past. My stag'ring steppes eke tell the trueth, that nature jade Gascoigne. The Divorce of a Loser But it [your minde] shall despise these vile and fading thinges.-Udal. Matthew, c. 6.

fast.

It is a naughty chaunge or alteracion of thinges, whe s man falleth again from the loue of the goodes of the soule, to the desyre of the goodes of the body: from true riches to vayne and deceyuable riches: from euerlastyng commed ties, to fading and transitory.-Id. Marke, c. 10.

That if God dooe with so great prouydence clothe a blade euen commōly growing euerie where, and anon after tr and perishe awaie, and such a blade as this daie is freas and greene in the field, and the next morow whan it is drie vp, is cast into ye fournace mouth to be burned: how much more wil he not suffer you to be vnclothed, O ye of litel fa Id. Luke, c. 1

Beauties freshest greene When spring of youth is spent, will rade, as it had nenes

been;

The barren fields, which whilom flower'd as they would

neuer fade,

Inricht with Summer's golden gifts, which now been a decay'd,

Did shew in state there was no trust, in wealth no cer

taine stay,

One stormie blast of frowning chance could blow them Mirrour for Magistrates, p

away.

With greedy eye

He sought, all round about, his thirsty blade
To bathe in blood of faithlesse enemy:
Who all that while lay hid in secret shade;
He stands amazed how he thence should fade.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 5.

What stony hart, that hears thy haplesse fate,
Is not impierst with deepe compassiowne,
And makes ensample of man's wretched state,
That flowres so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late!
Id. Ib. b. iii. c. 9.
This befals them, when beautie (the fadingness whereof is
the greatest detector and impeacher of our frailtie) proves an
insurer of the lastingness of this life.

Mountague. Devoute Essayes, pt. ii. Treat. ii. s. 3. Jove, with his faded thunder I despise, And only fear the lightning of your eyes.

Dryden. Ovid. Metam. b. xiii. My glory [Virgil] by thy skill shall brighter shine With native charmes and energy divine! Britain with just applause the work shall read, And crown with fadeless bays thy sacred head.

Needler. To the Earl of Roscommon. Tar-water being made in an earthen vessel unglazed, or that hath lost part of its glazing, may extract, (as it is a strong menstruum) from the clay, a fade sweetishness, offensive to the palate.

Bp. Berkeley. Farther Thoughts on Tar-water. Know, first, that light displays and shade destroys Refulgent nature's variegated dyes.

Any coarser or inferior material or workmanship; any thing coarser or inferior.

Fag, the verb and noun, though common in speech, (especially at our public schools,) are not so in writing.

Fag-end, the end finished or worked off with inferior materials or workmanship, or both; and thus, (met. and lit.) the part or portion less valued or esteemed; of less value or estimation, consideration or consequence.

Spun. Who should think that we, coming forth of the fagend of the world, should yet see the golden age, when so little silver is stirring.

Massinger. The Virgin-Martyr, Act ii. sc. 3.
The sprightlier infidel, as yet more gay,
Fires off the next ideas in his way,

The dry fag-ends of ev'ry obvious doubt,
And puffs and blows for fear they should go out.
Byrom. Enthusiasm.
But in comes a gentleman in the fag-end of October, drip-
ping with the fogs of that humid and uncertain season, and
does not hesitate in diameter to contradict this wise and just
royal declaration.-Burke. On a Regicide Peace, Let. 4.

FA'GOT, v. Fr. Fagoter, fagot; It. Fagotto. FA'GOT, n. Skinner, from the Lat. Fascis, (sc.) ligni; Menage, from Pakeλos, i. e. PopтLOV Evλwv; Caseneuve, from the Lat. Fagus, a beech tree, fagots (he imagines) being first made of that wood. The It. Faggetto is a plantation of beech Mason. Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting. trees. Perhaps from A. S. Feg-an, to put together. (See FADGE.) It is (like the Lat. Fascis) applied

Thus bodies near the light distinctly shine With rays direct, and as it fades decline.

Survey those walls, in fady texture clad,
Where wand'ring snails in many a winding path,
Free, unrestrain'd, their various journeys crawl.

Shenstone. Economy, pt. iii. FADGE. Ger. Fugen; Dut. Voeghen, focken; A. S. Feg-an, "gefeg-an, componere, jungere, to compound or compose, to set, put or joyn togeher; it. quadrare, to agree, to serve aptly in a lace. Hence, happily, our Fadge; as when we ay, things will not fadge, i. they will not be rought together, they will not so suit, correspond or agree, as to serve to that end whereto they are designed," (Somner.) See FAG.

"It hath beene when as heartie loue
Dil treate and tie the knot,
Though now, if gold but lack in graines
The wedding fadgeth not."

Warner. Albion's England, b. iv. c. 29.
With flattery my Muse could neuer fadge,
Nor could this vain security effect,
From looser youth to win a light respect
Too base and vile.

Drayton. Pastorals, Ecl. 3.

If this Scotch garboils do not fadge to our minds, we will ell-mell run amongst the Cornish choughs presently, and I a trice.-Ford. Perkin Warbeck, Act iv. sc. 2.

Yet they shall be made, spite of antipathy, to fadge togeer, and combine as they may to their unspeakable wearimeness, and dispair of all sociable delight in the ordinance hich God establish'd to that very end.

Millon. Doctrine, &c. of Divorce, b. i. Pref.

For when they came the shape to model,
Not one could fit another's noddle;
But found their light and gifts more wide
From faz dging, than th' unsanctify'd.-Hudib. pt. iii. c. 2.

Proceed to tragics: first, Euripides
(An author where I sometimes dip a-days)
Is rightly censur'd by the Stagirite,
Who says his numbers do not fadge aright.
Swift. To Dr. Sheridan, 1718.

FAG, . Perhaps a consequential usage of FAG, 7- Fegan, ge-fegan, to order rightly, to bour or strive to make things fit or suit, or anwer their purposes; and thus

to

A bundle of sticks.

To fagot,-to bind or tie up in fagots or bundles; also, to burn with fagots.

Defending by their seculare armes idolatry, fighting, burning, and fageting for their idols. Joye. The Exposicion of Daniel, c. 11. Casting before them the earth by little and little, they made one trauerse euen vnto the wall on two sides in all their batteries the which they made thick and strong with

woolpacks, and other fagots, to assure themselues the better

of our flanckers.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. pt. i. p. 123.

But here I must give warning, that it be done distinctly and severally, the philosophies of every one throughout by themselves, and not by titles packed and fagotted up together, as hath been done by Plutarch. Bacon. Advancement of Learning, D. ii. Did they not bind your worship's knighthood by the thumbs? then fagotted you, and the fool, your man, back to back-Wilkins. Miseries of Inforced Marriage, Act v.

Ent'ring into their inner lodgings, they found faggots of bones of men's armes and legges, which they reserue to make heads for their arrows. Purchas. Pilgrimage, b. ix. c. 13. s. 2. He was too warm on picking work to dwell, But fagotted his notions, as they fell, And if they rhym'd and rattled, all was well. Dryden. On Elkanah Settle.

The said reverend father enjoyned him by his oath, and under pain of relapse, that on the Lord's-day next, he should go before the cross bare-headed, in procession, in his Church of Saint Leonard at Hith, near Colchester, where he was a parishioner, carrying a faggot on his shoulder.

Strype. Memorials. Hen. VIII. an. 1527.

She, wretched matron, forc'd in age, for bread,
To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread,
To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn,
To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn:
She only left, of all the harmless train,
The sad historian of the pensive plain.

FAIL, v. FAIL, n. FA'ILANCE. FAILING, n.

Goldsmith. Deserted Village.

Fr. Faillir; It. Fallire; Sp. Fallar; Dut. Faelen, from the Lat. Fallere, which Vossius thinks is from Φαλ-ειν, Dorice pro φηλEw, decipere. As the Fr. Faillir, To deceive, to disappoint; and thus, to desert, to forsake, to quit, relinquish or abandon; and also, to wane, to decay, to decease, to perish; to be wanting or deficient; to miss, to err.

To labour hard, to labour assiduously, to work r labour till wearied. FAILURE. To be fagged; to be overboured, to be wearied with labour. A fag, a hard Forker; a laborious drudge. By Act of Parliament (4 Edw. IV.) cloths are equired be perfected according to one order of workmanship, without difference in the weaving, c. And in case (it is added) any such difference r raw or kaw cocle or fagge, happen to be in any art of the said clothes, &c., then a seal of lead hall be set, &c. for perfect knowledge to be had er thereof. (See Rastall, fol. 123.) Thus, to have been applied to— inferior material or workmanship joined or superior. And then, generally, to

o the buy

ag appear The

itted to the

VOL. I.

Frut and corn ther faylede, tempestes ther come,
Lygtynge & thondre ek.
R. Gloucester, p. 378.
Ac smot to hym myd ys ost, & ther wythoute fayle,
At Eccestre strong ynou hii smyte an batayle.-Id. p. 245.
Sore thei were trauailed, & socour com tham non,
And alle ther store failed, ther mete was nere gone.
R. Brunne, p. 30.
For meny men of this molde. setten more her herte
In worldliche good than in God. for thy grace hem failleth.
Piers Plouhman, p. 195.

753

I hold a mouse's wit not worth a leke
That hath but on hole for to starten to,
And if that faille, than is all ydo.

Chaucer. The Wif of Bathes Prologue, v. 6156. [He] thinketh, here cometh my mortal enemy, Withouten faille, he must be ded or I.

Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 1646.

Of silver in thy purse shalt thou not faille.
Id. The Shipmannes Tale, v. 13,178.
To mourther who that woll assente,
He maie not faile to repent.-Gower. Con. A. b. iii.
For tristeth wel withoute faile,

There is no thinge, which shall you faste,
That ought of reason to be do.-Id. Ib. b. viii.

Albeit that the season of the yeare mete for the warrefare fayled, yet he thought it might be greatly for hys behoof, to go vnto the iland and see what manner of men they were. Goldyng. Cæsar, fol. 97.

Than they sayd, sirs, without fayle there is no body within the castell: howe know you that? quod Sir Gualtier: Sir, quod they, we know it, for there is none appereth at their defence at all our shot.

Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. ii. c. 38.

Till that the rest him seeing lye on ground,
Ran hastily, to weet what did him ayle.
Where, finding that the breath gan him to faile,
With busie care they stroue him to awake.
And doft his helmet, and vndid his maile.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 1.
Let dinner cheerfully

K. Hen.
Be serv'd in this day of the week is ours,
Our day of providence, for Saturday
Yet never fail'd, in all my undertakings
To yield me rest at night.

Ford. Perkin Warbeck, Act iii. sc. 1.
So thou, Posthumus,

Wilt lay the leanen on all proper men;
Goodly, and gallant, shall be false and periur'd
From thy great faile.-Shakes. Cymbeline, Act iii. sc. 4.
Kin. Speake on;

How grounded hee his title to the crowne
Vpon your faile; to this poynt hast thou heard him
At any time speake ought?-Id. Hen. VIII. Act i. sc. 2.

His sicknesses in the later years of his life gave him but short and seldom truce, and always made it necessary for him not to stir from his chair, or so much as read a letter for two hours after every meal, failance wherein being certainly reveng'd by a fit of the gout.

Fell. Life of Hammond.
If I acknowledge myself ever to have been a sinner, and
to have failings in all I do, having always believed in Christ,
is not this (say they) enough?
Goodwin. Works, vol. v. p. 359.
And am I so far grown mistress of myself,
That I who th'other day could scarce o'ercome
The sense of a slight failure at Madrid,
Can here at home suffer indignities,

And tell you calmly, and with unconcern'dness,
Be you Elvira's, and Elvira yours?-Digby. Elvira, Actv.
The soul

Of man alone, that particle divine,
Escapes the wreck of worlds, when all things fail.

Somervile. The Chase, b. iv.

The Fathers of the first three centuries, (that golden age of Christianity, tried and purified in the fire of persecution,) though not exempt from failings, not infallible, were yet men of higher character than those of the tenth or eleventh. Waterland. Works, vol. v. p. 304.

If you do not succeed, you are without resource; for, conciliation failing, no further hope of reconciliation is left. Burke. On Conciliation with America.

He insinuates that I was incited by avarice, or ambition, or party spirit. I have failings in common with every human being, besides my own peculiar faults: but of avarice I have generally held myself guiltless.

Fox. Speech. East India Bills.

[His enemies accused] him of having incited Creech to translate Horace, that by his failure in that work he might lose the reputation which he had gained by his poetical version of Lucretius.-Malone. Life of Dryden.

Our business is to shew, that objects of great dimensions are incompatible with beauty, the more incompatible as they are greater, whereas the small, if ever they fail of beauty, this failure is not to be attributed to their size. Burke. On the Sublime and Beautiful, pt. iv. § 24. FAIN, v. FAIN, adj. FAIN, adv.

FA'INNESS.

A. S. Fægnian, gaudere, lætari, to be glad, to rejoice, to fain, (Somner.) Fain, the adverb, is still in common use,

Gladly, willingly, joyfully.

Tho this strong mon was slawe, that so strong was in fygt,
Ys men bi gonne to flee and fayn that heo mygt.
R. Gloucester, p. 121.
Thei were fayn to ask pes, & feaute thei him suore.
R. Brunne, p. 28.
5 D

"Eilred," said Dunstan, "thi brother Edward was slayn
Thorgh thi moder Estrid, ther of scho was fulle fayn."
R. Brunne, p. 37.
Then Waryn Wysman, and Wyleman his felawe
Fayne were to folwen hem, and faste ryden after.
Piers Plouhman, p. 65.
And of another thing they were as fayn,
That of hem alle was ther non yslayn.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2709. The countreymen burye theyre corne after that manner, for want wherof the souldiours were fayne to lyue with herbes, and suche fishe as they caught in the ryuers. Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 183.

As touching heretikes, I hate that vice of theirs and not their persons, and very faine would I that the tone were destroied, and the tother saned.-Sir T.More. Workes, p. 925.

But the vnrewly multitude flocking about him, were euermore at the veray heeles of him with importune throng. and pressed stil vpon him, for fainnesse to heare the word of God out of his mouth.-Udal. Luke, c. 5.

His hart's enshrined saint, his heaven's queene,
Fairer then fairest, in his fayning eye
Whose sole aspect he counts felicitye.

Spenser. Hymne. In Honour of Loue.

Whose steadie hand was faine his steed to guyde,
And all the way from trotting hard to spare;
So was his toyle the more, the more that was his care.
Id. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 8.

And, maiden, here in the sight
Of all your suitors, every man of worth,
I'll tell you whom I fainest would prefer
To the hard bargain of the marriage-bed.

London Prodigal, Act ii. Anon.

That puffed up with smoke of vanity,
And with seife-loved personage deceiv'd,
He gan to hope of men to be receiv'd
For such, as he him thought, or faine would bee.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 3.

This cooled them a little that would fain have been doing, because they supposed that all the army of the Athenians had been already in the city: the other, on the contrary side, were very glad to talk of peace, without any further danger.-North. Plutarch, p. 179.

My comfort is, that by this opinion my enemies are but sucking criticks, who would fain be nibbling ere their teeth are come.-Dryden. Pref. to All for Love.

The poem also, or the pilgrim, or both, have accompanied me from first to last; and perhaps it may be a pardonable vanity which induces me to reflect with complacency on a composition which in some degree connects me with the spot where it was produced, and the objects it would fain describe.-Byron. Ded. to Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.

FAINT, v. FAINT, adj. FAINTING, n. FAINTISH. FAINTISHNESS. FAINTLESS. FAINTLY. FAINTLING, adj. FAINTNESS. To decay, to pass away, FAINTY. to wane, to deprive of all strength or power; to waste away, to be or become weak or feeble, to be or cause to be enfeebled, to sink, deject or depress.

Past part. Faned, fan'd, fant or fened, fend, fent; of the A. S. verb Fynig-ean, to corrupt, to decay, to wither, to fade, to pass away, to spoil in any manner, (Tooke, ii.61.) And on this past part. the verb is formed.

& tho it com to the strengthe, hii fouzte feinteliche.
R. Gloucester, p. 515.
Conseil gan he take, that he suld be partie,
And Gode acorde to make, forsothe fulle fauntlie.
R. Brunne, p. 152.

O foule lust of luxurie, lo thin ende,
Nat only that those faintest mannes mind,
But veraily thou wolt his body shende.

Chaucer. The Man of Lawes Tale, v. 5347.

What shall she sain, her witte is all ago,
Right as a wolfe that fainteth a lambe alone,
To whom shal she complain or make mone.

And all so feble, and in such wise

I was, that vnneth might I rise

So far trauailed, and so faint

That neither knew I kirke ne saint

Id. Legend of Lucrece.

Ne what was what, ne who was who.-Id. Dreame.

And though he differ thee, thinke it not long, nor faint not in thy fayth, or be slacke in thy prayer.

Tyndall. An Exposition vpon Matthew, c. 7.

Like as the feeble moone doth give sometime a fainting light

To men that walke in woodes, whã clouds do kepe the skies from sight,

And al things altřed ben, and couloures cleere are hyd by night. Phaer. Virgill. Eneidos, b. vi.

And as I sat to write my plaint,

Meaning to show my great vnrest, With quaking hand, and hart ful faint,

Amid my playntes among the rest. &c. Vncertaine Auctors. The Louer telleth his Divers Joies, &c.

That it woulde please hym to graunt vnto vs, the grace of perseueraunce, to continue in the exercise and obseruation of his wyll and pleasure, least that by the fayntyng and faylyng therin, we myght after fall from that our former happy state of his grace and fauour.

Fisher. On Prayer, Last Reason.

Nimirum hi homines frigent, in faieth these men are colde and faintly.-Udal. Flowers of Latine Speaking, p. 48. Whan they came to the barryers they began to skrymisshe but faintly, and lyke suche persones as could but lytell skyll of feates of armes. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. ii. c. 170.

And vpon them that are lette a lyue of you I wyll sende a fayntnesse into theyr hartes in the lande of theyr enemies : so that the sounde of a leafe that falleth, shall chase them, and they shall flee as though they fled a swerde, and shal fall no man folowinge them.-Bible, 1551. Leuiticus, c. 26. Jacob sod potage, and Esau came fro the felde and was fayntye, and sayde to Jacob: let me suppe of yt redde potage, for I am fainty.-Id. Genesis, c. 25.

The houses spoyld (that mischeif yet remaynd, and great anoy)

Shall I abide to see? and Drances woordes not prooue vntrue?

And shall this ground faint-harted dastard Turnus flying viewe?

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He blest himselfe, as one sore terrifide;
And, turning feare to faint devotion,
Did worship her as some celestiall vision.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 6.

Methought I saw my late espoused saint,
Brought to me, like Alcestis. from the grave,
Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave,
Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint.
Milton, son. 23.

Sleep hath forsook and giv'n me o're
To death's benumming opium as my only cure.
Thence faintings, swounings of despair,

And sense of heav'n's desertion.-Id. Samson Agonistes.

And I assure you this root [elecampane] thus confected is singular good for faintings; and especially quickneth the dulnesse and defect of the stomacke. Holland. Plinie, b. xix. c. 5.

The temper of my loue, whose flame I find
Fin'd and refin'd too oft, but faintless flashes,
And must within short time fall downe in ashes.
Stirling, son. 22.

His bootelesse bow in feeble hand upcaught,
And therewith shot an arrow at the lad;
Which fayntly fluttring scarce his helmet raught.
And glauncing fel to ground, but him annoyed naught.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 5.
Though much renown'd because it [the emeraud] chast-
ness loves,

And will when worn by the neglected wife,
Show when her absent lord disloyal proves,
By faintness, and a pale decay of life.

Davenant. Gondibert, b. iii. c. 4. Yea, such a fear and faintness is grown in court, that they wish rather to hear the blowing of a horn to hunt, than the sound of a trumpet to fight.

Lyly. Alexander & Campaspe, Act iv. sc. 3. His name was Daunger, dreaded over all; Who day and night did watch and duely ward, From fearefull cowards entrance to forstall And faint-heart fooles, whom shew of perile hard Could terrifie from fortune's faire award.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 10. Though great the pain and anguish that he bore, His friends' and subjects' grief afflict him more, Yet even that, and coming fate, he bears; But sinks and faints to see a brother's tears.

Duke. On the Death of Charles II.

Thus every plant has its atmosphere, which have very various effects on those who stay near them, some producing head-achs, sleep, fainting, vapours; and others, a great refreshment of the spirits.-Arbuthnot. On Aliments, c.3. s.3.

A certain degree of heat lengthens and relaxes the fibres ; whence proceeds the sensation of faintishness and debility in a hot day. Id. On Air.

Hab. There's no having patience, thou art such a faintling, silly creature.-Id. Hist. of John Bull, pt. ii. c. 13.

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The story of Saint Peter delivered out of prison; the drawing and execution good, but the colouring in som parts faint.-Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. ii. c. I.

Faintings, giddiness, pains in my stomach, vapours, al take it by turns, and sometimes attack me in a body, and almost overpower me.

Chesterfield. Miscell. Works, vol. iii. Let 7

If on coming home from a journey in hot weather you fin yourself faintish and drouthy, and call for a glass of win and water, have you not a pleasure in seeing the wine p from the bottle or sparcle in the glass, even before yo bring it to your mouth.

Search. Light of Nature, vol. i. pt.i. c.

Oh! many a night on this lone couch reclined,
My dreaming fear with storms hath wing'd the wind,
And deem'd the breath that faintly fann'd thy sail,
The murmuring prelude of the ruder gale.

FAIR, adj. FAIR, ad.

Byron. The Corsair, c.

A. S. Fag-er; which Skinn derives from fag-en, (see FAIN FAIR, n. gaudium, joy or gladness, (q. d FAIR, V. aspectu jucundus; for all thin FAIRLY. fair or beautiful, gaudium ex FAIRNESS. tant. In Goth. Fairgus is man See Junius, Goth. Gloss.

dus.

Free from speck, spot or blemish; spotles pure; and thus, pleasing, pleasing to the sigh beautiful; and, (met.) candid, equitable, impa tial, just, honourable; also pleasing, gratifying favourable, conferring success; gentle, peaceful

That maide was to lond y brogt of so noble gentrise, Fairor womman nas tho non, y hote heo was Gewise. R. Gloucester, p. E Malde hight that mayden, a fayrer mot non lyue.

R. Brunne, p. 10 Thanne was ich al so fayn. as foul of fair morwenynge Piers Ploshmas, p.is Ich ros up and reverencede God. and ryght faure by greete.

And ferliche hadd of hus fairnesse.
What ladies fayrest ben or best dancing,
Or which of hem can carole best or sing,
Ne who most felingly speketh of love.

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Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 23 But what she was, she wold ne man seye For foule ne faire, though that she shulde dere. Id. The Man of Lawes Tale, v.44 They were ful glade whan I spake hem fayre, For God it wot, I chidde hem spitously.

Id. The Wif of Bathes Tale, v. 560 But soch a fairnesse of a necke Had that swete, that bone nor brecke Nas there non seen.

Id. Dreame

To draw folk to heven, with fairnesse,
By good ensample was his besiness.-Id. Prologue, v 50
My faire maiden well ye bee,
Of thyn answere, and eke of thee
Me liketh well.

Gower. Con. A. b. i. Tedet harum quotidianarum formarum, I am wery these, that amonge vs are called and taken for faire wee or I haue dooen with those faire women, that we haue Cay here among vs.-Udal. Flowers of Latine Speaking, fol. 5 And yet all the season ye Duke of Berry was beby and came but fayre and easely, for he had no grete appet to go into Englande.-Berners. Frois. Cron, vol. ii, e 55. The whitenesse thereof [ivory] was so much esteeme that it was thought to represent the natural faireesus man's skinne.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 19.

They of the castell sawe how they were assailed on sydes, and coude parceyue no consort, and sawe we the duke nor the costable wolde not departe thens tyl, the had ye castell at their wyll, outher wyth fagrness or nesse.-Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 321.

Lyke as a fayre-playstred wall in a wynter house, and hye buyldynge, may not abyde the wynde and storme e so is a fooles hearte afrayde in hys ymaginacyon.

Bible, 1551. The Boke of Jesus Syrach, c. 2

Which faire-told tale, allured to him muche people, as well of the chiualry as of the meane sort.

Hall. Hen. VI. an. 30.
For since each hand hath put on nature's power,
Fairing the foul with art's false-borrowed face,
Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy hour,
But is profaned, if not lives in disgrace.

Shakespeare, son. 127.

For sure the fayrest Florimel him seemed
To him was fallen for his happie lot,
Whose like alive on earth he wened not.

He [Cæsar] made suite unto the consuls for a licence, to
hold faires and markets, for his own private manors and
lands.-Holland. Suetonius, p. 159.

Qu. Sweethearts, we shall be rich ere we depart,
If fairings come thus plentifully in.

Faitard, ignavus. Minshew thinks from the Fr. Faiseurs; that is, factores, doers; or, he adds, it may not improbably be interpreted idle livers, taken from Faitardise,-a kind of numnesse or

Shakespeare. Love's Labour Lost, Act v. sc. 2. sleepie disease, proceeded of too much sluggish

With a further grant, that there shall be for ever one market and two fairs at Ringwood.-Strype. Mem. an. 1553.

If I am entitled to hold a fair or market, and another person sets up a fair or market so near mine that he does me a Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 2. prejudice; it is a nuisance to the freehold which I have in my market or fair.-Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iii. c. 13.

Yet, to die innocent, and have the glory
For all posterity to report, that I

Refused an empress, to preserve my faith
To my great master; in true judgment, must
Show fairer, than to buy a guilty life
With wealth and honour.

Massinger. The Roman Actor, Activ. sc. 2.

If his will was they should march on a pace, they would for the nonce go faire and softlie. If he encouraged them in propre person to plie their busines, they would all of them slacke their former service, whereunto they were entred of themselves.-Holland. Livivs, p. 83.

The louely lillie, that faire flower for beautie past compare,
Whom winter's cold keene breath hath kill'd, and blasted
all her faire,
Might teach the fairest under heau'n, that beauties freshest

greene,

When spring of youth is spent, will vade, as it had neuer
been.
Mirrour for Magistrates, p. 556.
O happie faire!

Your eyes are loadstarres, and your tongues sweet ayre
More tuneable then lark to shepheards eare,
When wheate is greene, when hauthorne buds appeare.
Shakespeare. Mids. Night's Dreame, Act i. sc. 1.
Now ginnes that goodly frame of Temperaunce
Fayrely to rise, and her adorned head
To pricke of highest prayse forth to aduance.

nesse. Mr. Tyrwhitt, Faitour, a lazy, idle feilow.
Faitard, piger. Faitard, faciens tarde, (Menage,)
doing or acting slowly or sluggishly.

That faiteth for hus lyflode.-Piers Plouhman, p. 152.
Tho were faitours aferede, and feynede hem blynde.
Id. p. 134.
Treuthe would
That no faiterye were founde. in folk that gon a begged.
Id. p. 135.

And nethles she wiste wele

FAIRY, n. Skinner derives from the A. S.
FA'IRY, adj. Faran, to go, to travel; and Rud-
diman (Gloss. to G. Douglas) thinks they received
their name either. q. fair folk, pulchri homines; or
q. faring folk,-homines vagantes et peregrinantes.
The first supposition receives confirmation, as Dr.
Jamieson thinks, from the circumstance, that
another class of Genii have been called Brownies,
most probably from their supposed swarthy ap-
pearance. In Dut. Vaerende vrowe, varende wiif,
is rendered by Kilian, Dryas, Hamadryas; and
also, incantatrix, venefica; volatica mulier; and
this, Dr. Jamieson observes, seems to countenance
the opinion of Skinner. See Jameison, in v. Fare-fayning or false miracles.-Id. Ib. p. 140.
folkis.

My worde stode on an other whele,
Without any feiterie.-Gower. Con. A. b. i.
For the more party they that wrote the fayts or deeds of
the Brytons, make but a short rehersayll of these v. kyngs.
Fabyan, pt. i. c. 23.

They are likewise called Fays, (qv.); in Fr.
Fée; which also signifies, "Fatal, appointed, des-
tined; taken, bewitched or forespoken; charmed,
inchanted." "Féerie, par féerie; fatally, by des-
tiny, by appointment of the Faeries," (Cotgrave.)
Faere, ensorcelé, enchante, (Lacomb and Roquefort.)
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 12. Faer, enchanter, ensorceler, (Roquefort.) Fr. Fée,
and It. Fata, from the Lat. Fata, Parca. (See
Menage, in vv. Fée and Fata, Dict. Etymol.; and
Origini della Lingua Italiana.)

Fayrest of faire, that fairenesse doest excell,
This happie day I have to greete you well.

Id. Ib. b. iv. c. 2. Zeal and charity; the which may be said to make a good complexion in the face of religion, the first relating to the colour of the blood, and the last to the fairnesse of the skin, through which the good tincture of zeale is transparent in the works of charity.

Mountague. Devoute Essayes, pt. i. Treat. 3. s. 2.

In the year of his majesty's happy restoration, the first play I undertook was the Duke of Guise, as the fairest way which the act of indemnity had then left us of setting forth the rise of the late rebellion; and by exploding the villainies of it upon the stage to precaution posterity against the like errours.-Dryden. Vindication of the Duke of Guise.

Talk'd I of love? yon swain, with amorous air
Soft swells his pipe, to charm the rural fair.
She milks the flocks; then list'ning as he plays,
Steals, in the running brook, a conscious gaze.

Savage. The Wanderer, c. 4.
You will say, perhaps, that the doctor sets light by the
Fathers and lays no stress upon them; I shall believe you,
when he fairly gives them up.

Waterland. Works, vol. i. p. 314. The colours of beautiful bodies must not be dusky or muddy, but clean and fuir. Burke. On the Sublime, pt. iii. s. 17. The print gives a very inadequate idea of it; and none of her Flemish fairness, [Anne of Cleve.]

Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. i. c. 4.
FAIR.
Fr. Foire; It. Fiéra; Sp. Feria,
FAIRING, n.from the Lat. Feria, or rather, says
Skinner, from Forum. Quo conferrent suas con-
troversias, et quæ vendere vellint, et quo quæque
ferrent, Forum appellarunt, (Varro, de L. L.
lib. iv.)

A place to which things, (sc.) goods, wares,
and merchandises are brought (feruntur) for sale.
Ther markettis & ther faires & ther castels reft.
R. Brunne, p. 296.
To Wy and to Winchestre. ich wente to the faire
With many merchandises.-Piers Plouhman, p. 97.
I governed hem so wel after my lawe,
That eche of hem ful blisful was and fawe [fain]
To bringen me gay thinges fro the feyre.

Chaucer. The Wif of Bathes Prologue, v. 5802.

For tho' [the senses] be properly the gates
Through which, as to the hert algates,
Cometh all thing vnto the feire,
Whiche maie the mannes soule empeire.

Gower. Con. A. b. i.

In olde dayes of the King Artour,

Of which that Bretons speken gret honour,
All was this land fulfilled of faerie;
The Elf-queene, with hire joly compagnie,
Danced ful oft in many a grene mede.

Chaucer. The Wif of Bathes Tale, v. 6439.

But evermore hir most wonder was,
How that it coude gon and was of bras;
It was of fairie, as the peple semed.

Chaucer. The Squieres Tale, v. 10,515.
The fier and ayre agreed, and to this cowplyng gaue their
light
In signe of ioye, and ouer head the mountain faries shright.
Phaer. Virgill. Eneidos, b. iv.

But listen, and I shall you tell
A chance in fairy that befell,
Which certainly may please some well,

In love and arms delighting.-Drayton. Nymphidia.

In the deserts of Affricke yee shall meet sometimes with fairies [hominum species] appearing in the shape of men and women, but they vanish soon away like fantastical illusions.-Holland. Plinie, b. vii. c. 2.

Shep. This is faiery gold, boy, and 'twill proue so; vp
with 't, keep it close: home, home, the next way.

Shakespeare. Winter Night's Tale, Act iii. sc. 3.
Dame Fortune, some men's tutelar,
Takes charge of them without their care;
Does all their drudgery and work,
Like fairies, for them in the dark.

Butler. Miscellaneous Thoughts.

Tne parts of the airy and earthy spirits, and that fairy kind of writing which depends only upon the force of ima gination, were the grounds of her liking the poem, and afterwards of her recommending it to the queen.

Dryden. Dedication to King Arthur.

And see the fairy valleys fade,
Dun night has veil'd the solemn viewt
Yet once again, dear parted shade,
Meek nature's child, again adieu!

Collins. Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomson.
FA'ISIBLE, i. e. Feasible, that may be done.
Fr. Faire; Lat. Facere, to do.

To require tasks not faisible, is tyrannicall, and doth
onely picke a quarrell to punish; they could neither make
straw, nor find it, yet they must have it.

Bp. Hall. Cont. The Affliction of Israel.
FAIT.
Fait; Fr. Fait, or faict;
FA'ITOUR. Lat. Factum, anything done, a
FA'ITOUROUS. deed. See FEAT.
FA'ITRY.
Faitours, Skinner says, is
Hall. Hen. VI. an. 11. explained-erro, seu vagabundus, from the Fr.

Wherupon thei sent the Lorde Ambrose de Lore with vii. c. horsemen, to robbe and spoyle the poore people, commynge to the faier, on the daye of Sainct Michaell the Archangell, kepte in the suberbes of the toune of Caen.

And whan my lord [Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester] saw yt he bad him walke faytoure, and made him be set openlye in the stockes.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 134.

I let passe ouer the faitry and falsehed that is therin vsed amōg, sometyme by the priestes, sometime by beggers in

Which whenas Blandamour beheld, he sayd;
False faitour Scudamour, that hast by slight
And foul advantage this good knight dismayd,
A knight much better than thyself behight,
Well falls it thee that I am not in plight
This day, to wreake the dammage by thee donne.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 1.
The whole court from all parts thereof cryed out and said,

that this was a fraudulent and faiterous Carthaginian trick,
to chuse and send such for to sue for the old peace, which
they themselves could not remember.

FAITH.
FAITHED.
FAITHFUL.
FAITHFULLY.
FAITHFULNESS.
FAITHLESS.

FAITHLESSLY.

Holland. Livivs, p. 755.

Skinner says, it seems to be from the It. Fede, (cum crassiori accentu et spiritu.) Tooke, that it is the A. S. Fægth, that which one covenanteth or engageth, the third person singular of the indicative of Fæg-an, (which is also written Feg-an, see FACT,) pangere, pag-ere, to engage, to covenant, to contract. It was, as he observes, anciently written faieth. It was also variously written feyth, feith, fayeth and also Fay, (qv.)

FAITHLESSNESS.

That which any one covenanteth, pledgeth, or promiseth, (sc.) to believe or live, by or according to; a covenant, pledge, or promise; credit staked or pledged; credit given; and is thus used as equivalent to,-belief, trust or confidence, truth, fidelity.

Thorgh that Christendom, tho, that were so wrothe,
At haly kirke's fayth alle on were bothe.

R. Brunne, p. 24.
Sire Eymere of Valence lay at Saynt Jon toun,
In his aliance with many earle & baroune
Of Scotland the best were than in his feith.-Id. p. 333.
For whilom thou wrote him tille, & cald him in thi brefe,
Thi kynde, faythfulle & leale of Gascoyn noble duke;
Therto thou set thi seale.
Id. p. 259.

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Holy wryt telleth

That Fals ys faithles. the fend ys hus syre.

Id. Vision, p. 31.
Thanne turnede I me forth, and talked to myselfe
Of the falshede of this folke, whom feythles thei weren.
Id. Crede.

Faithly for to speke. hus furste name wus Jhesus
Tho he was bore in Bethleem.-Id. Vision, p. 369.
So also feith if it hath not workis, is deed in it silff. but
sum man schal seie, thou hast feith, and I haue werkis.
schewe thou to me thi feith withoute werkis. and I schal
schewe to thee my feith of werkis.-Wiclif. James, c. 2.

Euen so fayeth, if it have no dedes, is dead in itselfe. Yea, and a ma might saye: thou hast fayeth, and I haue deeds; shew me thy fayth by thy deedes: and I wyll shewe thee my fayth by my deedes - Bible, 1551. Ib.

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