tion of the brain, or of its membranes. And Vossius, anо Tov ppev-os, hoc est, mente, quia in eâ semper mens læditur; because in it the mind is always diseased.

A disease of mind; delirium; raving, a paroxysm approaching to raving madness.

Bules and botches. and brennyng aguwes,
Frenesyes and foule uveles.-Piers Plouhman, p. 396.

Wel art thow wys quath hue to wit suche wisdome shewe
To eny fol other flatorere. other to frentik puple.
Id. p. 183.

And than in feare Was Pandarus, lest that in frenseye He should fall or els sone deye.-Chaucer. Troilus, b. i. And whan that he it vnderstode Anone into melancolie,

As though it were a fransie,
He fell.
Gower. Con. 4. b. iii
And in his throwes, frenetike and mad
He curseth Juno, Apollo, and eke Cupide.
Chaucer. Troilus, b. v.

Thou swarst alone that I

thy fancie did subdue,

Why then should frensie force thee now to shew thyselfe vntrue.

Turbervile. To his Friend that refused him, &c. And therfore among many folishe wordes of Luther, as foolishe as euer heretyke spake, he neuer spake a more frantike, than in that he saith that God hath nede of our faith.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 270.

Lykewise for the Frenche part, thether came Isabell, the Frenche Quene, because the King her husband was fallen into hys old frenetical desease.-Hall. Hen. V. an. 7.

Thus spake the owl, whose talk could not be heard,
"So little fools good counsel do regard,"
But thinking frenzy him his wits beguil'd,
The honest bird despitefully revil'd.-Drayton. The Owl.

If he (the civil magistrate) find on his complexion, skin, or outward temperature the signs and marks, or in his doings the effects of injustice, rapine, lust, crueltie, or the like, sometimes he shuts up as in frenetick or infectious diseases, or confines within doors, as in every sickly estate. Milton. Reasons of Church Government, b. ii. There she half frantick, hauing slaine her sonne, Did shrowd herselfe, like punishment to shonne. Spenser. Virgil's Gnat, s. 22. This solemn sympathy poor Venus noteth; Over one shoulder doth she hang her head; Dumly she passions, franticly she doteth, She thinks he could not die, he is not dead. Shakespeare. Venus & Adonis. What frenzy, shepherd, has thy soul possess'd, The vineyard lyes half prun'd and half undress'd? Dryden. Virgil, Ecl. 2. These fight like husbands, but like lovers those: These fain would keep, and those more fain enjoy: And to such height their frantic passion grows, That what both love, both hazard to destroy. Id. Annus Mirabilis. And all amidst them lay the hoary sire, (Sad scene of woe !) his face, his wrapt attire Conceal'd from sight, with frantic hands he spread A shower of ashes o'er his neck and head.

Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. xxiv. The narrowness of her [Vanessa's] income, the coldness of her lover, [Swift,] the loss of her reputation, all contributed to make her miserable, and encrease the frenzical disposition of her mind.-Orrery. Rem. on Dr. Swift. Let. 9. Nor do we madly, like an impious world, Who deem religion frenzy, and the God That made them, an intruder on their joys, Start at His awful name, or deem his praise A jarring note. Cowper. Task, b. iv. Oh! sovereign of the willing soul Parent of sweet and solemn-breathing airs, Enchanting shell! the sullen Cares, And frantic Passions, hear thy soft controul. Gray. The Progress of Poesy. She [Medea] herself when opening to the chorus her last horrid purpose says, fiercely indeed, but not frantically. Hurd. Notes on the Art of Poetry. FREQUENT, v. Fr. Frequenter; It. FreFREQUENT, adj. quentare; Sp. Frequentar; FREQUENCE. Lat. Frequentare, from freFREQUENCY. Ferre quem, (or FREQUENTABLE. fert qui) quæ oportet, is FREQUENTATION. frequens, (Varro, lib. vi.) FREQUENTATIVE. FREQUENTER.

quens.

Vossius cannot coincide. He suggests that coens, from coesse, might formerly be used pro unà esse; and that from ferè (plurimum) and coens might arise frecoens or frecuens.

FREQUENTLY.

To come or go to often, in common; to visit much, resort to,-many times, in numbers.

But he, wherby he might prolonge his bedred father's dayes: Chose rather skill in power of herbes, and physickes noble praise,

And such like knowledge dumb, deuoid of honour to frequent. Phaer. Virgill. Eneidos, b. xii. Lord God, how frequente and famyliar a thynge with every estate and degree throughout Christendome, in this reuerent othe on the Gospelles of Christ?

Sir T. Elyot. The Governor, b. iii. c. 7.

While youth lasted in him, the exercises of that age and his humour, not yet fully discovered, made him somewhat the more frequentable and less dangerous.-Sidney.

Vbi rem resciui, after that I had knowledge of the matter, rescio, rescis, resciui, rescitum, and a verbe frequentative of the same rescisco.

Udal. The Flowers of Latine Speaking, fol. 115.

In the excellent & most noble emperour Octauius Augustus, in whome reygned all nobilitie, nothinge is more co mended, than that he had frequently in his mouthe this 21 worde, matura, do maturedly.

Sir T. Elyot. Governour, b. i. e. 23. T

I, as I undertook, and with the vote
Consenting in full frequence was impowr'd,
Have found him, view'd him, tasted him, but find
Far other labour to be undergon
Than when I dealt with Adam, first of men.
Milton. Paradise Regained, b. i.

Looke into the universall course of the Catholike life; there shall you finde the decalogue professedly broken, besides the ordinary practise of idolatry, and frequence of oathes.-Bp. Hall. Quo Vadis, s. 20.

Alon. O sir, I grant

These sins are deadly ones; yet their frequency
With wicked men makes them more dreadful to us.
Massinger. The Bashful Lover, Act iv. c. 2.

The people with great frequencie brought gifts unto Palatium, which they offred unto the Goddesse, and solemnized a lectisternium.-Holland. Livivs, p. 719.

A subject often handled must become trite, and Piscatory Eclogue has the advantage over Pastoral in displaying a field less beaten and less frequented.

P. Fletcher. Piscatory Eclogues. Introd. Accuse me thus;

That I have frequent been with unknown minds, And given to time your own dear purchas'd right; That I have hoisted sail to all the winds, Which should transport me furthest from your sight. Shakespeare, son. 116.

And besides, it is most evident, that one and the same verb goes through all the conjugations in the Hebrew, but doth not so in Greek, and accordingly there is no such thing in the Greek language, as the variation of frequentative, transitive, and reciprocal.-Hammond. Works, vol. ii. p. 70.

The miserable spectatours, and frequenters of these infernall pleasures, they lose their time, their modestie, their honestie, their credit, and respect with God, and all good men.-Prynne. Histrio Mastix, pt. i. Act ii. Chorus.

Her [the Muse's] Majestie. (Like that of Princes) when the vulgar see Too frequently, respect and awe are fled, Contempt and scorn remaineth in their stead. Brome. From a Friend. Th' oraculous seer frequents the Pharian coast, From whose high bed my birth divine I boast. Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. iv. There is nothing more frequent among us, than a sort of poems, intitled Pindaric Odes; pretending to be written in imitation of the manner and style of Pindar, and yet I do not know that there is to this day extant in our language one ode contrived after his model.

Congreve. Discourse on the Pindaric Ode Swift at the word descending to the shores, They moor the vessel and unlade the stores : Then moving from the strand, apart they sate, And full and frequent form'd a dire debate. Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. xvii.

familiar unto them; the impressions, which the visite The miracles which they saw, grew by their frequency power of God made upon their minds, wore out insensibly by degrees.-Clarke, vol. ii. Ser. 150.

These inhabitants were much more civilized than those of the inland country, by the commerce and frequentation of other nations, epecially the Gauls, who had long before been civilized by the Roman colonies.

Sir W. Temple. An Introd. to the Hist. of England. [John Rawlinson was] a great frequenter of the pulpits in Oxon.-Wood. Athena, vol. i.

is

freer from constraint, he frequently affects half verses. Though he [Mr. Cowley] wrote in couplets, where rhyme

Dryden. Dedication to the Encis.

Lewis Du Guernier studied under Chatillon at Paris, and came to England in 1708, but with very moderate talents, though he was reckoned to improve much here by drawing in the Academy, which was then frequented, though esta-blished only by private contributions among the artists. Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. v.

TO

He had frequent meetings and conferences all this while with his old friends of the opposite party, the late ministers of Cæsar's power, Pansa, Hirtius, Balbus, Matius, &c. Middleton. Life of Cicero, vol. iii. s. 9.

Though he did not persecute to death by laws, that being directly contrary to his edicts of toleration, which he had with so much ostentation and frequency repeated; yet he connived at the fury of the people, and the brutality of governors of provinces.

Warburton. Julian's Attempt to Rebuild the Temple. The verbs called deponent, desiderative, frequentative, inceptive, &c. need not be considered here, being found in some languages only, and therefore not essential to speech. Beattie. Moral Science, pt. i. c. I. s. 3. Continual experience testifying that nature hath established such a connection between the motions of matter and perceptions of mind, that one frequently begets the other-Search. Light of Nature, vol. i. pt. i. c. 8.

FRESCO.

See FRESH.

Nitre condenseth the spirits by cold, and by a kinde of frecour (as we now-a-days speak) (quandam frescuram.) Bacon. The History of Life and Death, p. 31. Evin the bare walls, whose breathing figures glow'd With each warm stroke that living Art bestow'd, Or slow decay, or hostile time invades,

And all in silence the fair frèsco fades.

Hart. An Essay on Painting.

On the accession of Sextus V. Zucchoro was invited to Spain by Philip II. to paint the Escuriel, but his frescos not pleasing, he returned to Rome, and founded the Academy of Painting for which Gregory XIII. had given him a Brief, and of which he was elected the first Prince.

Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. i. c. 7.

FRESH, v. FRESH, n. FRESH, adj. FRE'SHEN, n. FRE'SHING, n.

FRE'SHET.

FRESHLY.
FRESHNESS.

A. S. Fersc; Dut. Versch; Ger. Frisch; Sw. Fersk; Fr. Frez, frais; It. and Sp. Fresco. The It. Fresco is thus traced by Menage from the Lat. Frigus, frigidus, frigidi, frigidiscus, frigdiscus, fregdiscus, frediscus, frescus, fresco! Or else from Frigo;

frixi, frixum, friscum. Other etymologists from virescens ; Ihre is not pleased with either, but suggests nothing else. Wachter observes, that the word perhaps has reference to cold, (ad frigus,) by which the vigour of natural things is preserved, and thinks that the Ger. Frisch may be from friesen, frigere, (see FREEZE,) and properly signify frigidus, cool, and thence transferred to recens, a state in which things are preserved by coolness. Cotgrave says,

Fr. Frez, m., fresche, f.; new, fresh, recent, raw, green; sound, lusty, newly come, lately done; also, cool; also, fresh or without salt. To which may be added, Having the bloom or vigour of any thing new or young; and thus, blooming, vigorous, brisk.

To fresh, (now re-fresh,)—to reinvigorate, to recruit, to renew the strength, the spirits, to brisken.

More ioylife than the byrde in Maie :
He maketh him euer fresshe and gaie.
Gower. Con. A. b. i.

The 15th of September-being come from the pilgrimage, we went aborde our shippe, and sett saile, and kept our course west toward the island of Ciprus, but al that night it was calme, and the 16th the winde freshed, and we passed by Mount Carmel.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. pt. i. p. 107.

But yet remember good readers, that in the conclusion of al the tale, he knitteth it vp with a freshe lusty point, and foileth al the reason in this wyse. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 675.

The most forcible windes make the greatest flood-tides, whereby the freshes, when they take their ordinarie course of ebbe, doe grow strong and swift, setting directly off to sea against the wind.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol iii. p. 673.

But Cato hym selfe, so lyttel regarded that repulse, that where allwayes he wente very homely, he the nexte day folowynge, decked and trymmed hym selfe more freshlye than he was wonte.-Sir T. Elyot. Governour, b. iii. c. 13.

And thus speaking did ferthermore also declare the lustie freashnes & hertinesse of spirite in him.-Udal. Luke, c. 12.

I walkt abroad to breathe the freshing ayre In open fields, whose flowring pride opprest With early frost, had lost their beauty faire. Spenser. Daphnaida.

When that's gone
He shall drink naught but brine, for I'le not shew him
Where the quicke freshes are.

Shakespeare. Tempest, Act iii. sc. 2.
Or whilst we spend the freshest of our time,
The sweets of youth in plotting in the air;
Alas! how oft we fall, hoping to climb.

Daniel. The Complaint of Rosamon. And that her skill in herbs might help remove The freshing of a wound which he had got In her defence, by envie's poyson'd shot.

Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. i. s. 5. All fish from sea or shore, Freshet, or purling brook, of shell or fin.

Milton. Paradise Regained, b. ii.

At last, dul wearinesse of former fight Hauing yrockt asleepe his irkesome spright, That troublous dreame gan freshly toss his braine, With bowres, and beds, and ladies deere delight. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 1. Till, on a day, as he disposed was To walke the woods with that his idole faire, Hir to disport, and idle time to pass, In th' open freshnesse of the gentle aire, A knight that way there chanced to repaire.

the cold and freshness thereof, for being a berd of fore hot, she delighteth in the fresh aire.

Id. Ib. b. iii. c. 8. The kite affecteth not so much the grosness of the aire, as prey, thereBacon. Naturall Historie, s. 824.

With thoughts lower than any beadle he [Bishop Hall] betakes him to whip the sign-posts of Cambridge ale-houses, the ordinary subjects of freshmen's tales, and in a straine as pitiful.-Milton. An Apology for Smectymnuus.

One rear'd a dagger at a captive's breast,
One held a living foe, that freshly bled
With new-made wounds.-Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. xviii.
Who nurs'd in idleness and train'd in Courts,
Pass'd all their precious hours in plays and sports,
Till death behind came stalking on, unseen,
And wither'd (like the storm) the freshness of their green.
Dryden. The Flower and the Leaf.
The river nobly foams and flows,
The charm of the enchanted ground,
And all its thousand turns disclose
Some fresher beauty varying round.

Byron. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, c. 3. s. 4. How often have I led thy sportive choir, With tuneless pipe, besides the murmuring Loire, Where shading elms along the margin grew, And freshen'd from the wave the zephyr flew. Goldsmith. The Traveller.

To night, Lord Conrad?
Ay, at set of sun :
The breeze will freshen when the day is done.
Byron. The Corsair, c. 1.
Yells the mad crowd o'r entrailes freshly torn,
Nor shrinks the female eye, nor ev'n affects to mourn.
Id. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, c. 1. s. 68.

Let but some new desire give play to a quite different set of organs, and the mind runs after it with as much freshness and eagerness, as if it had never done any thing. Search. The Light of Nature, vol. i. pt. i. c. 6.

FRETFULNESS.
FRETTER.

Goth. Fretan; A. S. Frætan, fretan; Dut. Vreten, vressen, fretten; Ger. fressen; to eat, to devour, to prey upon. JuFRETTING. nius says, he thinks that fret was formerly used for comedere, rodere, manducare, to eat, to gnaw, to chew or chaw, and afterwards was tranferred to those whose bitter cares corrode their irritated mind, mordent atque arrodunt. A fretful man, like the envious man in Ennius, is one, ipse suum cor edens. Frett, he adds, the English apply ad animum ægrè ferentium aliquid, quod minimè possunt concoquere; to the mind of those who bear impatiently any thing, which they cannot digest.

Sir T. Brown probably took his fret or channel immediately from the Lat. Fretum.

FRET, v. FRE'TFUL.

To eat, to gnaw, to corrode, to wear or rub; and (met.) to ruffle, to chafe, to vex, to prey upon.

To the rode he sturte, & bygan to frete and gnawe
The armes vaste, and thyes myd hys teth to drawe.
R. Gloucester, p. 417.
And fastyng dayes to frete. by for noon an drynke
Wt spicerie.
Piers Plouhman, p. 29.

They freten vp the firste froyt and falsliche sybbeth.
Id. Crede

Hise disciples pluckiden eeris of corn, and thei frotynge with her hondis eeten.-Wiclif. Luke, c. 6.

Ther saw I Atteon an hart ymaked,
For vengeance that he saw Diane all naked:
I saw how that his houndis have him caught,
And freten him for that they knew him naught.
Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2070.

Thise wormes, ne thise mothes, ne thise mites
Upon my paraille frett hem never a del,
And wost thou why? for they were used wel.

Id. The Wif of Bathes Prologue, v. 6143.

Who rubbeth now, who froteth now his lippes
With dust, with sond, with straw, with cloth, with chippes,
But Absolon?
Id. The Milleres Tale, v. 3745.

And as the law, which fretteth thy conscience, is in thine hart, and is none outward thing, euen so seeke within thy hart the plaister of mercy, the promises of forgeuenes in our Sauiour Jesus Christ.-Tyndall. Workes, p. 31.

For sometyme the fyer toke by itself in the woodes by the mountaynes, through the vehemente confrication, freatinge and gatheringe of the trees, whyche happened by force of wynde, wherby arose a greater fyer and flame.

Nicolls. Thucidides, fol. 64. For the more glory of God that these thinges wer done, the more the Phariseis wer fret with enuye against Jesus. Udal. Matthew, c. 15. Also if they be not well boyled, they cause wyndes, and annoye the stomake, and make sometyme frettynges. Sir T. Elyot. The Castel of Helth, b. ii.

No wooll is lesse subiect to mothes, or to fretting in presse, then this, as the old parliament robes of kings, and of many noble peeres to be shewed may plainly testifie.

Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. pt. i. p. 161.

He chauft, he griev'd, he fretted, and he sight,
And fared like a furious wyld beare,
Whose whelpes are stolene away, she being otherwhere.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 9.

By this salve, the sore rather festered and rankled, than healed up, and the sedition thereby fretted more and more. Holland. Livivs, p. 228.

We first advertise, it [Euripus] generally signifieth any strait, fret, or channel of the sea, running between two shores.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vii. c. 13.

The fret or channel of Euripus not ebbing or flowing seven times a day, according to common report.-Id. Ib.

A woody hill there stood, at whose low feet
Two goodly streames in one small channel meet,
Whose fretfull waves, beating against the hill,
Did all the bottome with soft mutt'rings fill.

Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. ii. s. 4. Cook. A hot day, a hot day, vengeance, a hot day boys, Give me some drink, this fire's a plaguy fretter.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Bloody Brother, Act ii. sc. 2.

The kernels of the pine nuts quench thirst; they pacifie the frettings and gnawings of the stomack. Holland. Plinie, b. xxiii. c 18.

FRET, v. Junius thinks from A. S. FrætFRET, n. wian, ornare, adornare, exornare, FRE'TISE. to trim, to deck, to adorne, to garnish. (Skinner, from It. Fratto, fractus, as it is a kind of work distinguished by frequent fractures and incisions; or by being broken or cut into many parts. Fret (in music) is probably from this It. Fratto, denoting a break or stop to the continuity

of sound.

To cut or carve into many parts, which rise, jet forward or project.

And on her hedde she had a croune

Her semed well an high persoun,

For round enuiron her crownet

Was full of rich stones fret.-Chaucer. Rom of the Rose.

And she was clad in roiall habite grene,
A fret of gold she had next her heare
And vpon that wite croune she beare.

Id. Prol. to Cleopatra Queene of Egypte. Small double rolles, all of flatte golde of damaske, fret with frysed golde.-Hall. Henry VIII. an. 1.

Amongst the which was seen

A goodly armour, and full rich aray, Which long'd to Angela, the Saxon queene, All fretted round with gold and goodly wel beseene. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 3.

And in each knot that doth compose
A mesh, shall stick a full-blown rose,
Red, damask, white, in order set,
About the sides shall run a fret

Of Primroses.-Drayton. Muses' Elysium, Nym. 2.

I did but tell her she mistooke her frets,
And bow'd her hand to teach her fingering,
(When with a most impatient deuilish spirit)
Frets call you these? (quoth she) I'le fume with them:
And with that word she stroke me on the head.

Shakespeare. Taming of the Shrew, Act ii. sc. 1. All organs of sweet stop, All sounds on fret by string or golden wire Temper'd soft tunings, intermix'd with voice Choral or unison. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. vii. Roses, lyons-heads, escalops and other decorations, are allowable under the corona with this rule, that whether here, or under any roof or ceiling, interlacing fretts be ever made at right angles.-Evelyn. Of Architects and Architecture.

So as when we meet with the greatest industry, and expensive carving, full of fret and lamentable imagery, sparing neither pains nor cost, a judicious spectator is distracted and quite confounded.-Id. Ib.

Again, if it be in a great hall, then (beholding) of the fair embowed or vawted roofs, or of the fretised seelings curiously wrought, and sumptuously set forth.

North. Plutarch, p. 36.

Plashe serveth passing well to white walls or seeling; also for to make little images in fretworke, to set forth houses; yea, and the browes of pillars and wals, to cast off rain. Holland. Plinie, b. xxxvi. c. 24.

Their [bases and mezzo relievo] ordinary placing was in fronts of edifices, as is yet to be seen in divers palaces at Rome, and especially in their villas and retirements of vilely imitated in our exposed fretworks about London, to pleasure, which are frequently incrusted with them, but the reproach of sculpture, especially where it pretends to figures on the outside of our citizen's houses.

Evelyn. Of Architects and Architecture.

Yet then no proud aspiring piles were rais'd,
No fretted roofs with polish'd metals blaz'd.
Pope. Statius. Thebais, b. i.
The moonbeam shone
Through the dim lattice o'er the floor of stone,
And the high fretted roof, and saints, that there
O'er Gothic windows knelt in pictur'd prayer,
Reflected in fantastic figures grew,

Like life, but not like mortal life to view.

Byron. Lara, c. 1. s. 11. FRIABLE. Fr. Friable; Lat. Friabilis, FRIABILITY. from friare, to separate or sunder.

That can or may be separated or sundered; easy to be sundered or reduced to small particles, easily crumbled.

Nor do they become friable or easily powderable by philosophical calcination, that is from the vapour or steam of water, but split and rift contrary to other horns.

Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 23. If needs you must alter their station, let it be done about November, and that into a light friable ground, or moist gravel.-Evelyn. Sylva. Of the Chess-nut.

Sixthly, in its rigidness and friability, being not at all flexible, but brittle like a flint: insomuch that with one knock of a hammer I broke off a small piece of it, and with the same hammer quickly beat it to a pretty fine powder upon an anvil.-Id. Ib. Of the Age, &c. of Trees.

For the liver, of all the viscera, is the most friable and easily crumbled or dissolved.—Arbuthnot. On Diet, c. 3.

The sharpness to which the point of all of them is wrought: the temper and firmness of the substance of which it is composed; the strength of the muscles by which it is darted insect, and with the soft and friable texture of the rest of out, compared with the smallness and weakness of the the body; are properties of the sting to be noticed, and not a little to be admired.-Paley. Natural Theology, c. 19.

FRI'AR. FRI'ARLY. FRI'ARLING, n. FRIARY.

Fr. Frere; It. Frate; Lat. Frater, a brother. Generally applied to A brother of a religious order

or community.

The nexte zer ther after the gode King Louis
Of France to the Holi Lond wende, & thoru Paris
Bareuot edo, & open heued, and then holi wey bigan
With procession of freres, & of mani good man.

R. Gloucester, p. 530.
Thise duze pers to the freres, tham for to schriue,
The jugement ageyn tham went, to schorte ther liue.
R. Brunne, p. 281.
Ich wolde ne forther afot. for no freres prechinge.
Piers Plouhman, p. 125.
A frere ther was, a wanton and a mery.
Chaucer. The Prologue, v. 208.
And so should the Scripture stand the in as good stede, as
a paire of spectacles shold stand a blinde freer.

Sir T. More. Workes, p. 147.

Time and place being to him assigned, hee in the audience of the pope and of frierlie cardinals & other doctors, was straitlie examined of his articles.

Fox. Martyrs, fol. 376. Learned Men against Friars. Then Master Latimer first repeating the frierly reasons of Doctour Buckneham whereby he would prooue it a dangerous thing for the vulgar people, to haue the Scripture in the vulgare tongue, so refuted the frier, so answered to his obiections, so dallied with his bald reasone of the plough man looking back, and of the baker leauing his breade unleauened, that the vanitie of the frier might to all men appeare. Id. Ib. p. 1574. Answer of M. Latimer to Dr. Buckneham.

And I haue laboured with mine owne hands, and will labor, and will that all my frierlings shall labor, and live of their labor, whereby they may support themselues in an honest meane.-Id. Ib. p. 381. The Rule of Friar Francis. And to the end of time, the tales shall ne'er be done, Of Scarlock, George-a-Green, and Much the Miller's son, Of Tuck the merry friar, which many a sermon made In praise of Robin Hood, his out-laws and their trade. Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 26.

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Their friar like general would the next day make one holyday in the Christian calendars in remembrance of 30,000 Hungarian martyrs slain of the Turks.

Knolles. History of the Turks. Witness the tale of Hans Boobiken, a rich Boor's son, who his father had sent abroad a fryering, that is shroving in our language.-Howell, b. iv. Let. 7..

St. Michael in Ariosto seeks out Discord, to send her amongst the Pagans, and finds her in a convent of friars, where Peace should reign, which indeed is a fine satire. Dryden. On the Origin and Progress of Satire.

So the first year of his coming over I was in the friery at Armagh; I was an acquaintance of the friars, and they invited me.-State Trials, an. 1681. Oliver Pluncket.

It was fashionable for persons of the highest rank to bequeath their bodies to be buried in the friery churches, which were consequently filled with sumptuous shrines and superb monuments.

Warton. History of English Poetry, vol. i. p. 293.
FRIBBLE, v. Corrupted from the Fr.
FRIBBLE, n. Frivole. See FRIVOLOUS.
FRIBBLER.
To be weak, to act weakly,
trivolously, triflingly, idly; to trifle.

And what is worse, they speak but
What they list of it, and fribble out the rest.

Middleton. The Mayor of Quinborough, Act v. sc. 1.

The like, saith Jorden, we observe in canes and woods, frication or collision, not by kindling the air about them. that are unctuous and full of oyle, which will yield fire by but the inflamable oyle within them.

Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 21. Frications used in the morning, serve especially to this intention; but this must evermore accompany them, that after the frication, the part be lightly anointed with oyl, lest the attrition of the outward parts, make them by perspiration, drye and juycelesse.-Bacon. History of Life and Death

Hard and vehement friction doth constipat and bind the body.-Holland. Plinie, b. xxviii. c. 4.

Frictions make the parts more fleshie, and full, as we sce both in men: and in the currying of horses, &c. Bacon. Naturall Historie, s. 877.

Goth. Frigonds; A. S. Freond; Dut. Vriend. Manifestly (says Junius) from the Goth. Frigon, to love, whose part. is frigonds, loving. And Tooke," Friend, i.e. friand, freond, the pres. part. of frian, freon, to love, means (subaudi any one, some one,) loving," (Div. of Purley, ii. 51.) Upon this part. the verb to friend has been formed; befriend is now the usual word.

To act as a friend or wellwisher, as one who loves, who wishes well; who would benevolently serve or favour; support or protect.

FRIEND, v. FRIEND, n. FRIENDLESS. FRIENDLY, adj. FRIENDLY, ad. FRIENDLILY. FRIENDLINESS. FRIENDSHIP.

Tho this fole to gadere com, and Brut Corineus fond,
Tho strengest mon & the meste that hym thozte in eny
lond,
Heo acoyntede hym a nou, and bi comen frendes gode,
Bothe for here prowes, and for heo were of on blode.
R. Gloucester, p. 15.
Tho he was fleyne and frendeles, mo than thrutty ger.
Id. p. 343.

The Frenche Kyng sent the Erle of Uandosme, greate master of his hous, and the Archebishop of Reyns, first pere of Fraunce, and diuerse other into Englande, which were ioyously received, and frendly entertained.

Hall. Hen. VI. an. 22. The faithfull frends ar fled and bannyshed from my sight: And such as I haue held full dere haue sett my frendship light. Surrey, Ps. 88. Lelipa, your garland thus you finish'd have, Then as we have attended Your leisure, likewise let me crave

I may the like be frended.

Drayton. The Muses' Elysium, Nymph. 5. The naturall inborne tounsmen and common people, who

favoured and friended still the name of Constantius, put to

their helping hands to set forward this horrible and fearfull tumult.-Holland. Ammianus, p. 177.

Oh, where have I been all this time! how friended,
That I should loose myself thus desperately,
And none for pity show me how I wandered?

Beaum. & Fletch. The Maid's Tragedy, Act iv.
It may breed such a quarrel to your kindred
And such an indiscretion fling on you too;
For she is nobly frended.

Id. The Wild Goose Chace, Act iii. sc. 1. In this sad plight, friendless, unfortunate, Now miserable I Fidessa dwell, Craving of you, in pitty of my state,

To do none ill, if please ye not doe well.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 2. That true faith, whereever it is; worketh and frameth the

heart to friendlike dispositions unto God, and brings forth friendlike carriage in the life towards God.

Goodwin. Works, vol. v. pt. ii. p. 48.

Long they thus trauelled in friendly wise
Through countries waste, and eke well edifiede;
Seeking adventures hard to exercise
Their puissance, whylome full dernly tryde.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 1.

So fires and frosts, to make a perfect hell
Meet in one breast, in one house friendly dwell.

P. Fletcher. Miscellanies. Contemnenti.
Sicin. Why eyther were you ignorant to see't?
Or, seeing it, of such childish friendliness,

To yeeld your voyces.-Shakes. Coriolanus, Act ii. sc. 3.

'Tis a disposition quite unchristian, that we show in such bad actions, being wholly contrary to that intermutual amity and friendliness that should be in the world.

Feltham, pt. ii. Res. 52.

Then those two knights, fast friendship for to bind,
And loue establish each to other true,
Gaue goodly gifts, the signes of gratefull mind,
And eke, as pledges firme, right hands together ioyn'd.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 9

God having mingled friendship with this life of ours, hath made all things joyous, sweet, pleasant, and acceptable, where a friend is present and enjoyeth his part.

Holland. Plutarch, p. 70.

True and perfect friendship requireth these three things especially; virtue, as being honest and commendable; society, which is pleasant and delectable; and profit, which is needfull and necessary.-Id. Ib. p. 185.

Henceforth I call you not servants, for the servant knoweth not what his lord doth, but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my father I have made known unto you.-Bible. John xv. 15.

If we from wealth to poverty descend,

Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.
Dryden. The Wife of Bath's Tale.
Have you less pity for the needy cheat,
The poor and friendless villain, than the great?
Pope. Horace, Dial. 2.
Friendlike, and side by side, two brethren fought,
Whom, at a birth, their fruitful mother brought.
Rowe. Lucan. Pharsalia, b. ii.

While, conscious of the deed, he glares around,
And hears the gathering multitude resound,
Timely he flies the yet untasted food,
And gains the friendly shelter of the wood.
Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. xvi.
Tell me if it is not better to be suppress'd: freely and

There are several texts of the New Testament which interpret the love of our neighbour to mean universal benevolence, or friendliness towards the whole kind, as opportunities may offer.-Waterland. Works, vol. ix. p. 26.