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each page confifts of a wood cut, representing an example 
of the miferies of human life, with fome explanations en¬ 
graved on the fame print. The lad three works were 
certainly prior to printing with moveable types, and may 
be as old as the year 1440. The Bible nuid have been 
printed between 1450 and 1455. It lias been Hated in dif¬ 
ferent works, that Fault went to Paris to fell a part of tire 
fecond edition of his Bible of 1462 ; and having fold the 
copies at a low price, in companion of w hat was then 
given for manufeript Bibles, and alfo at different prices, 
was profecuted by the purchafers under a pretence of their 
having been overcharged. It is even alferted, that being 
accufed of magic, in confequence of the perfect refem- 
blance obferved in the charadters, he was obliged to fly 
from the country. Fault never appeared at Paris after 
1466: he was there at that period, as is proved by a 
copy of Cicero’s Offices, publifhed that year by him and 
Schaeffer, which is itill to be feen in the public library of 
Geneva, and at the end of which is a note, written by the 
firlt poffeffor, (rating, “that it was given to him by John 
Fault, at Paris, in July, 1466.” There is reafon to be¬ 
lieve that Fault died that year of the plague, which car¬ 
ried off forty thoufand of the inhabitants in the months of 
Auguft and September, efpecially as the name of Schaeffer 
alone is found inferibed on books printed after.that time 
at Ivlentz. 
FAUST (John), better known by the name of Doctor. 
Faujlus, a magician, whom fome men of learning have con¬ 
founded with the above-mentioned John Fault of Mentz. 
lie is faid to have been tbs fon of a peafant in Suabia, 
Anhalt, or Solweidel, in the march of Brandenburgh, who 
fent him to a relation at Wittemberg, where he was put 
to fchool, and was much praifed on account of his genius. 
At the age of fixteen he went to Ingolftadt, where he 
fludied theology, and took the degree of matter of arts ; 
but he abandoned theology, and applied with great affi- 
buity to medicine and affrology. Fie became heir to a 
confiderable property which had belonged to his uncle at 
Wittemberg; but he fpent it in debauchery, and then 
devoted himfelf to magic and the conjuration of fpirits; 
for which purpofe he procured the proper books, and 
took into his fervice the fon of a clergy man of Wafi'er- 
burg, named John Wagner. He is faid to have performed 
many wonderful things, fome of them at the court of the 
emperor Maximilian I. There is reafon, however, to be¬ 
lieve, that the hiftory of his life is wholly a romance, in¬ 
vented to amufe the populace. 
FAUS'TITAS, a goddefs among the Romans, fup- 
pofed to prelide over cattle. Horatius. 
FAU'TOR,/. [Latin; fauUtir, Fr.J Favourer; counte- 
nar.cer ; fitpporter.—I am neither author or fautor of any 
feet; 1 will have no man addidt himfelf to me; but if I 
have any thing right, defend it as truths not mine. B.Jonfon. 
FAU'FRESS,/. [fautrix, Lat. fautrice, Fr.J A wo¬ 
man that favours, or Ihows countenance.—He comes from 
banilhment to the fautrefs of liberty, from the barbarous 
to the polite. Garth. 
It made him pray, and prove 
Minerva’s aid, his fautrefs Itill. Chapman. 
FAU'VILLE-EN-CAUX, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Lower Seine, and chief place of a canton, 
in the diftrict of Cuudebec: ten miles north of Caudebec. 
FAU'XBOURG,/. [French.] The fuburb, or con¬ 
tiguous buildings to a city, but without its gates or 
precindts. 
FAWKES (Francis), a writer in poetry, born in York¬ 
shire, about 1721. He received his education at Jefus- 
college, Cambridge. After graduating in arts at the uni- 
verfity, he took orders, and fir It fettled at Bramham, in 
Yorklhire. He afterwards removed to Croydon, in Surrey, 
wheie he obtained the notice of archbilhop Herring, who 
collated him to the vicarage of Orpington with St. Mary- 
Cray in Kent ; and the poet expreffed his gratitude in an 
Uegy Up op the prelate’s death, in 1757. In 1761, he 
FAY 
publifhed a volume of poems, and afterwards carried ort 
the Poetical Calendar, and the Poetical Magazine, in con¬ 
junction with Woty. Of his original poems, Partridge 
Shooting, an Eclogue, to the Hon. Charles Yorke, 1767, 
teems to have been raoft popular. The peculiar ftren<nh 
of lus genius, however, lay in tranffation ; and it is from 
Ins performances under this head that he is entitled to 
commemoration. He gave metrical versions of the fra<r. 
ments of Menander ; of Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, Mof. 
chus, and Mufaeus; of the Idylliums of Theocritus ; and 
of the Argonautics of Apollonius Rhodius ; the laft not 
pujlilhed till altei his death. Thefe works were well 
received by the public. He poflefled an eafy flow of ver- 
fificajion; and, though his didtion is not highly poetical, 
yet it has the merit of extraordinary clearnefs, which 
leaves no helitation about the meaning of the original; 
a praife to which all tranflations are not entitled. He ex¬ 
changed his vicarage in 1774, for the reftory of Hayes, 
wheie he cued, in 1777. His verfion of the Argonautics 
was publifhed in 1780, 8vo. under the care oF the Rev. 
Mr. Meen, of EmanneLcollege, Cambridge. 
FAWN, f. [faon, Fr. from fan, in the old French a 
child, probably from infans, Lat.] A young deer.—The 
buck is called the firft year a fawn, tiie fecond year a. 
pricket. Shakefpeare. 
Who for thy table feeds the wanton fawn. 
For him as kindly fpreads the flow’ry lawn. Pope. 
To FAWN, v. n. [of uncertain original. Perhaps a 
contraction of the French fan fan, a term of fondnefs for 
children.] To court by frilking-before one ; as a dog: 
Holding Carioli in the name of Rome, 
Even like a fawning greyhound. Shakefpeare. 
To court by any means. Ufed of animals.—Is it not 
Itrange that a rational man (hould worl’nip an ox ? that he 
Ihould/aow upon his dog ? bow himfelf before a'cat t and 
adore leeks and garlic ? South. 
Inflead thereof he kifs’d her weary feet, 
And lick’d her lily hands with fawning tongue, 
As he her wronged innocence did weet. Spenfer. 
To court ferviiely—Forbear to fawn upon their frowns, 
Shakefpeare. 
And thou, fly hypocrite, who now would’ff be 
Patron of liberty, who more than thou 
Once fawn'd, and cring’d, and ferviiely ador’d 
Heav’n’s awful monarch ? Milton. 
To bring forth the young of the deer kind, as, The doe 
hath fawned. 
FAWN, f. A fervile cringe; low flattery: 
You will rather fliew our gentle lowts 
How you can frown, than fpend a fawn upon them 
For the inheritance of their loves. Shakefpeare. 
FAWN, a townfliip of the American States, in York 
county, Pennfylvania. 
FAWNER, f. One that fawns; one that pays fervile 
courtfhip.—By foftnefs of behaviour we have arrived at 
the appellation of fawners. SpcElatpr. 
FAW'NING, f. Cringing fervi 
curt’fies, and bafe fpaniel fawning. Shakefpeare. 
FAW'NINGLY, adv. In a cringing fervile way. 
FAX'ED, adj. [from pex, Sax. hair.] Hairy. Now 
obfolcte. —They could call a comet a faxed liar, which is 
all one with Itella crinita, or comata. Camden. 
FAY , f. [fee, Fr.] A fairy ; an elf. See Fairy. 
Ye fylplis and fylphids, to your chief give ear; 
Fays, fairies, genii, elves, and demons, hear 1 Pope. 
[Fromycf, Fr.] Faith. Wholly obfolcte: 
Their ill ’haviour garres men mi flay, 
Both of their doctrine and their fay. Spenfcr. 
FAY, a town of France, in the department of the Indre 
2 and 
Cringing fervility. —I.ow-crooked 
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