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GLOSSARY. 351 
Fastest, adv. Most closely: p. 18, 1. 26. 
Felicity, sb. Luck, good fortune; p. 227, 1. x5. ‘The pencill of the 
holy Ghost, hath laboured more, in describing the afflictions of Iob, 
then the felicities of Salomon.’ Essay v. p. 17. 
Find strange. To wonder: p. 78, '. 14; p. 94, l. 25; p. 141, Ll. 21. 
‘It cannot be found strange, it cannot be wondered at; p. 149, I. 33. 
Lat. non est cur miretur quispiam. 
Fitteth, is befitting: p. 82, |. 3. 
Fixing, sb. Fixed position: p. 47, 1. 32. Compare ‘fixure’ in Troilus 
and Cressida, i. 3. LOT. 
Flexuous, adj. Winding, intricate: p. 118, 1. 15. 
Fluctuant, adj. Floating: p. 98, 1. 26. 
Fly, v.¢. To chase flying, as with a hawk: p. 209, |. 10, ‘ But now, 
if a man can tame this monster, and bring her to feed at the hand, 
and govern her, and with her fly other ravening fowle, and kill them, 
it is somewhat worth.’ Essay of Fame, p. 240. 
For=as for: p. 71, 1. 8. 
Force. ‘ Of force’=of necessity, necessarily: p, 106, 1. 17. 
Forth, redundant in the phrases ‘how far forth,’ ‘as far forth’: 
p- 176, 1. 12; p. 257, 1. 30. ‘Forth of’=out of; p. 231, 1.14. See 
Gen. viii. 16. 
Fortify, v.i. To become strong: p. 209, |. 4. 
Forwards. In the phrase ‘so forwards’ =so forth, so on: p. 48, l. 9. 
Frame. ‘Out of frame’=out of order: p. 217, l. 19. ‘And therfore, 
when great ones, in their owne particular motion, move violently... . 
it is a signe, the orbs are out of frame.’ Essay xv. p. 56, . 
Fret, v.t. To eat away; p. oI, 1.7. See Lev. xiii. 55. 
Frets, sb. p. 162, 1. 17. Figures in architecture, used,in ornamenting 
the roofs of houses, ‘formed by small fillets intersecting each other 
at right angles.’ Parker’s Glossary of Architecture. The Egyptian key 
pattern is a familiar example. ‘ Fringotteries: f. Frets; cranklings, wrigled 
flourishing, in caruings, &c.’ Cotgrave, Fr. Dict. A.S./reiu, an ornament. 
Fripper, sb. A dealer in old clothes: p. 176, l. 25. ‘Fripier: m. A 
Fripier; or broker; a mender, or trimmer vp of old garments, and 
a seller of them so mended.’ Cotgrave, Fr. Dict. Shakespeare (Temp. 
iv. I. 225) uses ‘a frippery’ for an old-clothes shop. 
Fro, prep. From: p. 68, 1. Io. 
Fume, sb, Vapour, smoke; used metaphorically: p. 89, 1. 25. 
Funambalo, sb. A rope-dancer; p. 165, 1. 23. ‘ We see the industry 
and practice of tumblers and funambulos, what effects of great wonder 
it bringeth the body of man unto.’ Bacon, Disc. touching Helps for 
the Intell. Powers (Works, vii. p. 99). 
Futility, sb, Idle talkativeness, blabbing of secrets: p. 248, 1. 33. 
Bacon (Essay vi. p. 20) uses the adjective ‘futile.’ ‘As for talkers 
and futile persons, they are commonly vaine, and credulous withall.’ 
And again in Essay xx. p. 84. 
