more meter could not be chosen to set all the worlde in a broyle, and to put the estate of the realme on an yl hazard.' He had been appointed by Warwick vice-admiral of the sea, and had in charge so to keep the passage between Dover and Calais, that none which either favoured King Henry or his friends should escape untaken or undrowned: such at least were his instructions with respect to the friends and favourers of King Edward after the rupture between him and Warwick. On Warwick's death, he fell into poverty, and robbed, both by sea and land, as well friends as enemies. He once brought his ships up the Thames, and with a considerable body of the men of Kent and Essex, made a spirited assault on the city, with a view to plunder and pillage, which was not repelled but after a sharp conflict and the loss of many lives; and, had it happened at a more critical period, might have been attended with fatal consequences to Edward. After roving on the sea some little time longer, he ventured to land at Southampton, where he was taken and beheaded. See Hall and Holinshed" (RITSON).

fall, to let fall: To fall it on Gonzalo, i. 201; Than fall, and bruise to death, i. 457; as easy mayst thou fall A drop of water, ii. 18; her mantle she did fall, ii. 316; Fall parti-colour'd lambs, ii. 355; Here did she fall a tear, iv. 156; make him fall His crest, vi. 26; They fall their crests, vi. 666; Fall not a tear, vii. 555; Her twinning cherries shall their sweetness fall, viii. 128; falling a lip of much contempt, iii. 431; Falls not the axe, iii. 51; Each drop she falls, vii. 443; For every tear he falls, viii. 331 (Yet Mr. Craik, in a note on They fall their crests-Julius Cæsar, act iv. sc. 2—most unaccountably says "This use of fall, as an active [sic] verb, is not common in Shakespeare").

fall, to fall away, to shrink: A good leg will fall, iv. 503.

fall-At, At an ebb, vi. 530.

fallow, light brown, with a yellow or reddish tinge: your fallow greyhound, i. 347.

false, to falsify, to "violate by failure of veracity" (Johnson's Dict.): Makes Diana's rangers false themselves, vii. 662.

falsing, ii. 18: see note 31, ii. 58.

familiar, a demon attendant on a witch or conjuror: Love is a familiar, ii. 175; I think her old familiar is asleep, v. 46; he has a familiar under his tongue, v. 180.

fan-When Mistress Bridget lost the handle of her, i. 365; brain him with his lady's fan, iv. 230: The fans used by ladies in Shakespeare's time consisted generally of ostrich or other feathers stuck into handles, which were sometimes very costly, being made of silver, gold, or ivory inlaid: "In the Sidney Papers, published by Collins, a fan is presented to Queen Elizabeth for a new-year's gift, the handle of which was studded with diamonds" (T. WARTON).

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Fancies or his Goodnights-Sung those tunes. . . . that he heard the carmen whistle, and sware they were his, iv. 362: "Fancies and Goodnights were the titles of little poems. One of Gascoigne's Goodnights is published among his Flowers" (STEEVENS): "The Carmen of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries appear to have been singularly famous for their musical abilities; but especially for whistling their tunes. Falstaff's description of Justice Shallow is, that he came ever in the rear-ward of the fashion,' and 'sang the tunes he heard the carmen whistle, and sware they were his Fancies or his Goodnights.' Note. Goodnights are 'Last dying speeches,' made into ballads. See Essex's last Goodnight." Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Time, &c. vol. i. p. 138, sec. ed. (where may be found a good deal more concerning the musical performances of the carmen).

fancy, love: no appearance of fancy in him, ii. 107; fancy's followers, ii. 269; where is fancy bred, ii. 382; fancy dies, ibid. ; fancy's knell, ibid..; in fancy following me, ii. 309; the power of fancy, iii. 51; sweet and bitter fancy, iii. 63; As all impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy, iii. 282; and by my fancy, iii. 480; my fancy may be satisfied, v. 71; What a mere child is fancy, viii. 185; soft fancy's slave, viii. 293; this afflicted fancy (love-sick fair one), viii. 441; partial fancy, viii. 462; wounded fancies, viii. 445.

fancy, to love: never did young man fancy With so eternal and so fix'd a soul, vi. 88.

fancy-free, love-free, exempt from the power of love, ii. 279. fancy-monger, love-monger, iii. 45.

fancy-sick, love-sick, ii. 294.

fang, to gripe, to seize, vi. 551.

fangled world—Our, vii. 719: Here fangled is, I apprehend, the same, or nearly the same, in meaning as new-fangled; but Malone (referring to Johnson's Dict.) explains it "gaudy, vainly decorated," and Nares (in his Gloss.) "trifling."

fantastical, belonging to fantasy, imaginary: Are ye fantastical ("creatures of fantasy or imagination," JOHNSON), vii. 9; whose murder yet is but fantastical, vii. 12.

fantasticoes, fantastic, coxcomical persons, vi. 418.

fap, fuddled, drunk, i. 349.

far', farther: Far' than Deucalion off, iii. 478; stand far' off, vi. 659 ; fly far off, vi. 680; From the far' shore, viii. 180.

far-You speak him, "You praise him extensively" (STEEVENS), vii. 636. farce, to stuff: The farced (= tumid, pompous) title, iv. 476; that she farces every business withal, viii. 189.

fardel, a burden, a bundle, a pack: iii. 486 (twice), 487 (three times), 497, 500; fardels, vii. 149.

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far-fet, far-fetched, v. 150.

farrow, a litter of pigs, vii. 47.

fartuous, Mrs. Quickly's blunder for virtuous, i. 367.

fashions-The, The farcy (Ital. farcina, Fr. farcin), a disease, in horses, of the absorbents of the skin, closely connected with glanders, iii. 144.

fast, fasted: I fast and prayed, vii. 705.

fast, settled, fixed: 'tis our fast intent, vii. 250.

fast and loose, ii. 174, 185; iv. 35; vii. 574: "A term to signify a cheating game, of which the following is a description. A leathern belt is made up into a number of intricate folds, and placed edgewise upon a table. One of the folds is made to resemble the middle of the girdle, so that whoever should thrust a skewer into it would think he held it fast to the table; whereas, when he has so done, the person with whom he plays may take hold of both ends, and draw it away. This trick is now known to the common people by the name of pricking at the belt or girdle, and perhaps was practised by the gypsies in the time of Shakespeare" (SIR J. HAWKINS). fast bind, fast find, ii. 368: “Bon guet chasse malaventure: Pro. Good watch prevents misfortune; (fast bind, fast find, say we)." Cotgrave's Fr. and Engl. Dict.:

"Time is tickle: and out of sight out of minde,

Than catch and hold while I may, fast binde, fast finde.”
Heywood's Dialogue on Prouerbs, Part First,-Workes,
sig. A 3 verso, ed. 1598.

fat and fulsome, iii. 388: see note 116, iii. 412.

fat and scant of breath-He's, vii. 208: It seems highly probable that this description was intended to apply to Burbadge, the original representative of Hamlet.

fat paunches have lean pates, ii. 164: This (with the variation of "make" for have) is given by Ray, who adds, “Pinguis venter non gignit sensum tenuem. This Hierom mentions in one of his Epistles as a Greek proverb. The Greek is more elegant,—Пaxeîa yaσTÈP λεπτὸν οὐ τίκτει νόον.” Proverbs, p. 144, ed. 1768.

fatigate, made weary, exhausted with labour, vi. 170.

fault, misfortune: 'Tis your fault, 'tis your fault, i. 347; 'Tis my fault, Master Page, i. 386; The more my fault to scape his hands, viii. 50.

Faustuses-Three Doctor, i. 405: Faustus was well known to the audiences of our poet's days, from the popular (fabulous) History of Doctor Faustus, and more especially from Marlowe's drama, founded on that history.

favour, countenance, aspect, appearance: a good favour you have, i. 494; discover the favour, i. 498; When I like your favour, ii. 87 ; for your favour, sir, ii. 110; Her favour turns the fashion of the days,

ii. 204; My favour were as great (with a quibble), ii. 212; O, were favour so, ii. 270; Of female favour, iii. 63; my daughter's favour, iii. 72; Carries no favour in't, iii. 209; his sweet favour, ibid.; some favour that it loves, iii. 352; I know your favour, iii. 376; vi. 78; In favour was my brother, iii. 377; known by garment, not by favour, iii. 498; the favour and the form Of this most fair occasion, iv. 71; stain my favour in a bloody mask, iv. 257 (In this passage I ought to have retained the old reading favours; and in my note on it, iv. 300, I have too hastily asserted that the plural, meaning " features,” was not applied to a single face); our former favour, iv. 500; your favour is well approved by your tongue, vi. 203; your outward favour, vi. 619; In favour's like the work, vi. 629; any mark of favour, vi. 632; To alter favour, vii. 16; to this favour she must come, vii. 197; defeat thy favour, vii. 393; in favour as in humour alter'd, vii. 433; so tart a favour, vii. 525; His favour is familiar to me, vii. 724; favour, savour, hue, and qualities, viii. 264; The most sweet favour, viii. 405; The favours of these men, vi. 161.

favour, generally meant " a love-token" ("A favour worn, munusculum amoris indicium." Coles's Lat. and Engl. Dict.), consisting of a glove to be worn in the hat, a scarf, &c.: but, as Steevens remarks, "it was anciently the custom to wear gloves in the hat on three distinct occasions, viz. as the favour of a mistress, the memorial of a friend, and as a mark to be challenged by an enemy:" Rosaline, you have a favour too, ii. 212; this favour thou shalt wear, ii. 214; he wears next his heart for a favour, ii. 231; give a favour from you, iii. 278; wear it as a favour, iv. 173; Here, Fluellen; wear thou this favour for me (the glove which Henry pretended he had plucked from the helmet of Alençon), iv. 491; given him for a favour, ibid.; the favour of his lady, viii. 188; By favours several, ii. 214; change you favours too, ibid.; the favours most in sight, ibid. ; Therefore change favours, ii. 219; The ladies did change favours, ii. 224; Your favours, the ambassadors of love, ii. 232; fairy favours, ii. 275; Seeking sweet favours, ii. 306; let my favours hide thy mangled face, iv. 285; the painted favours of their ladies, viii. 139; A thousand favours from a maund she drew, viii. 440 (where Steevens strangely failed to see that the words, Of amber, crystal, and of beaded jet, describe the favours, and not, as he supposed, the maund or basket).

fay-By my, By my faith, iii. 112; vi. 407; vii. 138.

fear, personified: 0, let my lady apprehend no fear: in all Cupid's pageant there is presented no monster, vi. 49; thy angel Becomes a fear, vii. 523; indent with fears, iv. 217; all these bold fears, iv. 385. fear, cause of, or reason for, fear: There is no fear in him, vi. 636. fear, to fear for: I promise you, I fear you, ii. 392; his physicians fear him mightily, v. 355; Fear not thy sons, vi. 310; much fear'd by his physicians, iv. 264.

fear, to terrify, to frighten to fear the birds of prey, i. 457; fear boys with bugs, iii. 126; The people fear me, iv. 380; go fear thy king withal, v. 287; to fear, not to delight, vii. 382; Thou canst not fear us, Pompey, with thy sails, vii. 529; because he would not fear him, viii. 275; Hath fear'd the valiant, ii. 358; more fear'd than harm'd, iv. 429; a bug that fear'd us all, v. 309; something fears me to think of, vii. 304; only this fears me, viii. 172.

fear no colours: see colours-Fear no.

fearful, timid: Pursue these fearful creatures, viii. 261. fearful-He's gentle, and not, i. 191: "fearful,' i.e. terrible, pro

ducing fear. In our author's age to fear signified to terrify (see Minsheu in verb. [and first article in this page]), and fearful was much more frequently used in the sense of formidable than that of timorous" (MALONE): "He is mild and harmless, and not in the least terrible or dangerous" (RITSON).

fearful bravery-With: "With a gallant show of courage, carrying with it terror and dismay" (MALONE): With "bravery in show or appearance, which yet is full of real fear or apprehension” (CRAIK), vi. 676.

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fears his widow-Hortensio, iii. 174: Here Petruchio means Hortensio is afraid of his widow ;" but the Widow understands him to mean "Hortensio frightens his widow." feast-finding minstrels, viii. 310: "Our ancient minstrels were the constant attendants on feasts” (STEEVENS): see note 9, viii. 342. feat, dexterous, ready, neat, trim: So feat, so nurse-like, vii. 723; Much feater than before, i. 200.

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feated, formed, fashioned, moulded (with a reference perhaps both to appearance and manners), vii. 636. "I am well feted or shapen of my lymmes, Ie suis bien aligné." Palsgrave's Lesclarcissement de la Lang. Fr., 1530, fol. cxlviii. (Table of Verbes). feather, that they got in France-Those remnants Of fool and, v. 498 : This passage, as Mr. Fairholt remarks, " alludes to the extravagant follies of the French fashions exhibited at the Field of the Cloth of Gold:" among the bas-reliefs of the Hotel Bourgtheroulde is a figure of one on the English side, which has a close skull-cap of velvet worn upon the head, and the bonnet or hat slung at the back of it, with an enormous radiation of feathers set around it." featly, dexterously, neatly, i. 189; iii. 471 (The expression "foot it featly," which is now so familiar to us from the former of these passages, was not a usual one in the days of Shakespeare, who probably caught it from a line in Lodge's Glaucus and Scilla, 1589; "Footing it featlie on the grassie ground." Sig. A 2 verso). feature, form, person in general: He is complete in feature, i. 282; Cheated of feature, v. 351; complete in mind and feature, v. 532; the