FALSE CHARACTERS,-continued. were good soldiers, and tall fellows: and when Mistress Bridget lost the handle of her fan, I took't upon mine honour, thou hadst it not. HAIR. So are those crisped snaky golden locks, Which make such wanton gambols with the wind, To be the dowry of a second head, The scull that bred them in the sepulchre. FALSEHOOD. Falser than vows made in wine. As false as dicers' oaths. O what a goodly outside falsehood hath. M. W. ii. 2. M. V. iii. 2. A. Y. iii. 5. H. iii. 4. M. V. i.3. That same Diomed is a false-hearted rogue, a most unjust knave; I will no more trust him when he leers, than I will a serpent when he hisses; he will spend his mouth, and promise, like Brabler the hound; but when he performs, astronomers foretel it; it is prodigious; there will come some change; the sun borrows of the moon, when Diomed keeps his word. T.C. v. 1. FALSTAFF. I have much to say on behalf of that Falstaff. H. IV. PT. 1. ii. 4. FAME (See also CELEBRITY). Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, And then grace us in the disgrace of death; When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, The endeavour of this present breath may buy That honour which shall bate his scythe's keen edge, L. L. i. 1. Death makes no conquest of this conqueror ; Adieu, and take thy praise with thee to heaven! H. VIII. iv. 2. R. III. iii. 1. Tit. And. i. 2. H. VIII. iv. 2. H. IV. PT, v. 4. FAME,-continued. Fame, at the which he aims,— In whom already he is well grac'd,—cannot O, Harry, thou hast robb'd me of my youth, Than those proud titles thou hast won of me; They wound my thoughts, worse than thy sword my flesh : And time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop. Having his ear full of his airy fame, Grows dainty of his worth, and in his tent C. i. 1. H. IV. PT. I. v. 4. T. C. i. 3. If a man do not erect, in this age, his own tomb ere he dies, he shall live no longer in monument, than the bell rings, and the widow weeps. *** An hour in clamour, and a quarter in rheum. M. A. v. 2. H. V. iii. 2. I would give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety. FANCY. So full of shapes is fancy, That it alone is high-fantastical. T. N. i. 1. An old hat, and the humour of forty fancies stuck in it for a feather. Nature wants stuff To vie strange forms with fancy. Tell me, where is fancy bred; In the cradle where it lies. T. S. iii. 2. A. C. v. 2. M. V. iii. 2. She knew her distance, and did angle for me, Madding my eagerness with her restraint, As all impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy. A. W. v. 3. We must every one be a man of his own fancy. A. W. iv. 1. M. N. ii. 2. In maiden meditation, fancy-free. FASHION. See'st thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this fashion is? hów giddily he turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five-and-thirty? M. A. iii. 3. FASHION,-continued. Eat, speak, and move, under the influence of the most received star; and though the devil lead the measure, such are to be followed. A. W. ii. 1. I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man. Still, wars and letchery; nothing else holds fashion devil take them! FATE. O heavens! that one might read the book of fate; Make mountains level, and the continent a burning T. C. v. 2. The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips: how chances mock, H. IV. FT. II. iii. 1. What fates impose, that men must needs abide, H. VI. PT. III. iv. 3. We defy augury; there is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come the readiness is all. But, O vain boast! Who can controul his fate ? Well, heaven forgive him, and forgive us all! If thou read this, O Cæsar, thou may'st live; But, orderly to end where I begun, H. v. 2. イ Our wills and fates do so contráry run, That our devices still are overthrown ; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own. H. iii. 2. FATHER. Fathers, that wear rags, Do make their children blind; Who would be a father? FAVOUR. K. L. ii. 4. O. i. 1. For taking one's part that's out of favour: Nay, an thou canst not smile as the wind sits, thoul't catch cold shortly. K. L. i. 4. O, who shall believe, Sickness is catching; O, were favour so! I'll set thee in a shower of gold, and hail FAVOURITES, PRESUMPTION OF. Where honeysuckles, ripen'd by the sun, H. IV. PT. II. iv. 2. Made proud by princes, that advance their pride FAULT. M. N. i. 1. A. C. ii. 5. M. A. iii. 1. I need not be barren of accusations; he hath faults, with surplus, to tire in repetition. Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides; You shall find there A man, who is the abstract of all faults Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it! There's something in me that reproves my fault; That it but mocks reproof. C. i. 1. K. L. i. 1. A. C. i. 4. M. M. ii. 2. T. N. iii. 4. There were none principal; they were all like one another, as halfpence are; every one fault seeming monstrous, till his fellow fault came to match it. A. Y. iii. 2. His worst fault is, he's given to prayer; he is something peevish that way; but nobody but has his fault :-but let that pass. M. W. i. 4. I will not open my mouth so wide as a bristle may enter, in way of thy excuse. T. N. i. 5. FAWNING. Tut, Tut! Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle ; FEAR. Fears make devils of cherubims. 108 R. II. ii. 3. Of all base passions, fear is most accurs'd. M. iv. 2. His flight was madness: When our actions do not, You make me strange, Even to the disposition that I owe, When now I think you can behold such sights, And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, While mine are blanch'd with fear. M. iii. 4. T. C. iii. 2. Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling, without fear. The devil damn thee black, thou cream-fac'd loon! M. v. 3. O, let my lady apprehend no fear in all Cupid's pageant there is presented no monster. There is not such a word T. C. iii. 2. H.IV. PT. 1. iv. 1. The love of wicked friends converts to fear; Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin's fee; Let not the world see fear and sad distrust R. II. v. 1. H. i. 4. K. J. v. 1. |