FRE 
cels in Fag of te 31 
and cielings o mS, os was much ceed in that d egra 
ing applicatio. a pai oth figures ot 
land{capes, card ee ae gave jens for archite@ture. 
ut is ele both haa arts are difregarded when com- 
my, which, 
years >. revifon aad Reece “We piesa oe eect 
for es 
S 
catio 
oieh mr ad fi oS this dida&tic labour before he 
left It taly, — communicated it to the beft judges of that 
afte er his return to France, a contin nued t to 
ante & d not een ae iently expl ined. 
though he was ee to fee his work in 7 yet age) 
written it tin, thought it vg idan publ 
from time to time, out of diffi 
native language, which he had in fome a loft i his 
long refidence in Italy. 
and by the it of the poem, 
French : his le being revifed : Du 
itasle who had be upon it, when 
was ve feined with a palfy, and after iugdllies oF cr 
five months under it, he died at the houfe of one his 
brathers at aS four leagues are Paris, in 
at a de 545 was interred in the parifh aie 
nitted his rene t Monf. Potels in the ftreet 
eel, on Mignard’s return from Italy in 1658, and 
the two friends lived together from that time till the death 
of Du Frefnoy. 
is poem was = publithed till three sec after his death ; 
with the Fren ch 
More ample juftice has been done in our language to the ta- 
lents of Du Freinoy, by our late fkilful poet Wilham Mafon, 
— hrit clothed in an Englifh 
enfions. And {till greater 
onow m by oe “hand of that extraordinary 
enius of our ifle in ce art of painting, fir Jofhua Reynolds, 
be whofe more valuable xemarks upon the 
points in the poem, Mr. Mafon was induced to 
onf. Du Piles. This, tranflation i 
heroic verfe, and is = by ‘iifty-nine notes from the 
pen of fir Jofhua Reyno 
By the union of the ae of two men fo renowned ia the 
arts of. guage - painting, Du Frefnoy is rendered for 
ever dear t nglifh reader ; and the tho ae 1 know- 
ledge he he exhibited of the beft principles of the art of 
painting, become more agreeably and more extenfively dif- 
fufed. See Life of Du Frefnoy by Wills and Mafon. 
FRESTA, in Geography, a town of Sweden, in the pro- 
vince of Upland; 21 miles S.E. of Upfa 
FRET, in Architecture, a Grecian de ecoration, confifting 
of er grooves or fillets, running at right angles in the 
poanner of a {piral,, ‘or turning round i in various directions, 
ber J 
s 
=: 
ive) 
onf, du ne was therefore at. 
in the bifhopric of Bamberg; feven miles N.W. 
FRE 
repeating the fame turns or forms in compartments, - -or at 
various intervals. The fret is one of the moft ancient or- 
_ naments, {fee Stewart’s Antiquities of Athens,) in which a 
bos Di eae of the moft beautiful will be’ feen: in various 
th 
“The apdltaa, is faid to have been derived from this 
circumftance, that the French word /rette literally fignified 
the timber-work of a roof, which confifts chiefly of beams, 
ig a laid. —_ ee other, and, as it were, fretted. 
ET, ry, isa bearing conlifting of 
fix a croffed, eee interlaced, i t-v 
Guillim derives the wor the Tee h rets, net: but 
the reader will eafily furnith himfelf with a better etymo- 
; oat armour for 
| ney of le lord Maltravers, and now crane by the 
duke of Norfolk. When i it confi its of more than fix pieces, 
the number muft be fpecified. 
Some call this the “true lover’s aa 3”? others «Harring- 
ton’s knot,’’ becaufe it is their a d “ nodo firmo,’’ 
the motto, Gibbon is for ellos it * heraldorum nodus 
amatorius. 
Fret, in Mufic, is a ftring tied round the neck of fom 
inftrument, fuch as the viol de gamba, and lute, to pees 
the precife part of the ee ae where the fingers of the 
left se are to be pla 
work, an enichinent va ae or a ‘ios adorned 
a0 ae in the manner the 
Fret-work is fometimes ‘ufed cae us e fi " i aa enrich 
flat, empty fpaces; but it is principally praGifed in roofs, 
which are fr ney over with plaiter-work. | 
The saree eine ay it to the natlngs of chimneys 
with great figure cheap piece of magnificence, and 
as durable Rie von doors, as, oe der matters in the 
weather. 
*FRETTS, in Mineralogy, a term ufed by our miners to 
exprefs the worn fide o: anks of the rivers in mine-+ 
countries, w aah oak fearch for ne fhoad fton Nes, Or grewts,, 
wafhed dow e hills, in order from thence to trace 
out the il of ies fhoad up to the mine. . Phil. Tranf. 
2 A 
FRETTY, or Fretre, in Heraldry, is where there are 
divers etn laid ear each other. 
Fre of fix, eight, or more pieces. Azure, fretty of 
eight pi ie or, the’ coat of the lord Willoughby. 
Columbicre obferves, that fretty, abfolutely afed, with- 
out any addition, 1 is fuppofed to be of fix pieces; that i is, fo 
other, which, iheiefore, 
more, as much mu 
d yet Guillim has azure, -fretty of fix, 
argent ; the coat of the ancient lords Elthingham, of Suffex. 
ee Srreicut, or St aight, Ce cography. See 
STRAIGU 
Fretu é Briana, or Gallicum, in Ancient Geography, 
denotes i {treights between Dover and Calais 
Frerum Gian. ee a of Gibraltar, aoe 
the ftreights between Spa d Africa, connedting tl 
Mediterranean fea with ae ocean; called alfo Fretum ie 
culaneum. 
FRETZENDORYF, in Geography, atown of Germany, 
of Bur 
Eberach. me 
es a town of Algiers ; ; 10 miles S. of 
afca 
FREUDENBERG, a town of Pruffia, in Natangen 
Alfo, a town of Germany, in the principality of Naffan 
Sieg en. —Alfo, a town of ae —Alfo, a town of Ge: 
, many, 
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