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In 1650 he was created a baronet, and acled as fecretary 
of date for Scotland ; and accompanying Charles II. on 
his expedition to England, was taken prifoner at the battle 
of Worcefter. In 1661 he was eleflred one of the repre. 
fentatives in parliament of the univerlity of Cambridge, 
and foon after was fworn a privy-counfellor for Ireland. 
His knowledge of foreign countries and languages caufed 
him to be employed in the diplomatic line ; and he was 
appointed envoy extraordinary to Portugal, and afterwards 
ambatlador to that court, for the purpofe of negociating 
the king’s marriage with the infanta Catharine. Upon 
his return he was admitted into the privy-council. He had 
rendered himfelf fo acceptable to the king of Portugal, 
that he was recommended as the fitted perfon to effect an 
accommodation between that crown and Spain. With 
this view, and for other purpofes, he was fent ambafiador 
in 1664 to Philip IV. of Spain, and during his refidence 
took a journey to Lifbon at the delire of the Spanifii court. 
The weaknefs and fluctuations of that court, however, 
thwarted his negociations ; till at length, on the near 
profpeft of Philip’s death, a treaty was haftily propofed to 
the ambafiador for immediate acceptance or rejection, 
which he thought proper to fign. It was however fo 
much difapproved by Charles and his council, that its 
ratification was refufed, and Fanfhawe was in confeqtience 
recalled. As he was preparing to return, he was (eized 
with a fever, probably aggravated by uneafinefs, which 
carried him.offat Madrid in 1666. The private character 
of (ir Richard Fanfhawe appears to have been very amia¬ 
ble and eftimable, and his ability in the management of 
public affairs was generally acknowledged, however his 
laft act might be regarded by the court. As a literary 
character he is chiefly known by his poetical tranflations. 
That of Guarini’s Pajlor Fido , firft publifhed in 1646, ob¬ 
tained him much reputation asan eafy and elegant verfifier. 
His verlion of the Lufiad of Camoens appears to have been 
lefs popular, and it is feverely criticifed by the late tran- 
flator, Mickle, vvhofe fplendour of verfificationand abun¬ 
dant liberties were, perhaps, necefiary to render fuch a 
work pleafing in an Englifh drefs. Fanfliawe likewife 
tranflated parts of Horace and Virgil, and two dramatic 
pieces from the Spanifii. He rendered Fletcher’s F'aitlt- 
ful Shepherdefs into Latin verfe. 
FANTA'Sl A, f. in mufic, a kind of air in which all 
the freedom of fancy and invention may be indulged. 
F'AN'TASIED, adj. Frilled with fancies or imagina¬ 
tions : 
As I travell’d hither through the land, 
I found the people (trangely fantafied. Skakefpeare. 
FAN'TASM, y. [See Phantasm.] A thing not real, 
but appearing to the imagination. 
FANTAS'TIC, or Fantastical, adj. [ fantajlique , 
Fr.] Irrational ; bred only in the imagination.—The de¬ 
light that a man takes from another’s fin, can be nothing 
elfe but a fnntajhcal preternatural complacency, arifing 
from that which lie really has no feeling of. Soutk. —Su'b- 
fifting only in the fancy ; imaginary.—Men are fo pofleffed 
.with their own fancies, that they take them for oracles; 
and are arrived to fome extraordinary revelations of truth, 
when indeed they do but dream dreams, and anniie 
themfelves with the fantajlic ideas of a bufy imagination. 
Decay of Piety. —Unreal ; apparent only ; having the na¬ 
ture of phantoms which only allurne vilible forms occa- 
iionally : 
Are ye fantajlical, or that indeed 
Which outwardly ye fliew > Skakefpeare. 
Uncertain ; unfteady ; irregular: 
Nor liappinefs can I, nor ntifery feel, 
From any turn of her fantafic wheel. Prior. 
Whinifical ; fancied; capricious; humorous; indulgent 
of one’s own imagination.—We are apt to think your me- 
dallifts a little fantajlical in the different prices they let 
upon their coins, without any regard to the metal of which 
they are compofed. Addijon. 
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FAN ! AS'TICALLY, adj. By the power of imagina¬ 
tion. Capricioully ; humorouily ; unfteadily. Whim- 
fically ; in compliance with imagination_One cannot fo 
much as fantajlically chufe, even or odd, he thinks not 
why. Grew. 
FANT AS'TICALNESS, or Fantasticness, f. Hu 
moroufnefs ; mere compliance with fancy. Whimficab. 
nefs ; unreafonablenefs.—I dare not affume to myfelf to 
liave put him out of conceit with it, by having convinced 
him of the fantajlicalnefs of it. Tillotfon. —Caprice; un- 
ffeadinefs. 
FANTAS'TICO, / [Italian.] One full of whims.— 
The pox of fuch antic, lifping, affecting, fantajlicoes. 
Skakefpeare. 
FAN'TASY, f. [ fantaife , Fr. pkantafta , Lat. <pceuTa.<na, 
Gr.] Fancy ; imagination; the power of imagining. See 
Fancy. —By the power of fantafy we fee colours in a 
dream, or a mad man fees tilings before him which are 
not there. Newton. 
Thefe fpirits of fenfe, in fantafy' 5 high court, 
Judge of the forms of objeCts, ill or well ; 
And fo they fend a good or ill report 
Down to the heart, where all affections dwell. Davies. 
Idea ; image of the mind : 
And with the ftig’ry fweet thereof allure, 
Chafte ladies’ ears to fantafies impure. Hahberd. 
Humour, inclination.—I would wifh that both you and 
others would ceafe from drawing the Scriptures to your 
fantafies and afteCtions. Whitgift. 
l'AN'TIN, a country of Africa, on the Gold Coaft, 
which extends about ten leagues along the fliore of the 
Atlantic. The foil is fertile, producing fruits, maize, 
and palm-wine. European nations trade here for gold 
and (laves : the inhabitants are bold, cunning, and deceit¬ 
ful. Their government is ariltocratic ; their chiefs are a 
fupreme judge or governor, attended by a council of old 
men. Each town has a chief. Their inteftine divilions 
are the chief fecurity of their neighbours, being able to 
afiTemble an army of ten thoufand men. The final 1 towns 
are very numerous, and they reckon about four thoufand 
fifhermen on the coaft. The capital is of the fame name, 
and is fituated about four leagues up the country. 
FAN'TOM,y [See Phantom.] Something not real, 
but appearing to the imagination. 
FA'NU, a fmall ifiand in the Mediterranean : about 
ten miles north-welt of Corfu.* 
FA'NUM VACUNjE, anciently a village of the Sa¬ 
bines, fituated between Cures and Mandela; where (food 
the temple of Vacuna, goddefs of the idle or unemployed, 
in an old decayed (late ; and hence the epithet putre , tiled 
by Horace. Now called Vocone, in the Eccleliaflic State. 
FANZ A'R A, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of F’ez : 
fifteen miles fouth-weft of Salee. 
FA'OE, a fmall ifiand of Denmark, a little to the north 
of Laland. Lat. 55. N. Ion. 11. 26. E. Greenwich . 
FA'OU (Le), a town of France, in the department of 
the Finilterre, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrict 
of Landerneau : four leagues and three quarters north of 
Qgumper, and three Couth of Landerneau. 
FAOU'A, or Foua, a town of Egypt, fituated on the 
weft branch of the Nile, built by the Mile,dans in the 
reign of Pfammetichus, and was formerly a ieaport,though 
now twenty miles from the fea. The Venetians formerly 
kept a conful here, and merchandife was brought thither 
by the canal from Alexandria ; but the canal not being 
now navigable, the town has loft its commerce, and Ro- 
fetta floiuifhes on its decay : lixieen miles louth-eaft of 
Rofetta, and feventy north-north-weft of Casio. Lat. 51. 
10. N. Ion. 48. 43. E. Ferro. 
FAOUE'T (Le), a town of France, and principal place, 
of a diftriet, in the department ot the Morbihan : ten 
leagues north-weft of Vannes, and fix and a half weft of 
Pontivy. Lat. 48. 2. N. Ion. 14. 50. E. Ferio. 
FAP, adj. Fuddled; drunk. It feems to havebeen a 
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