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no fecret damage to him in his houfe, or any thing 
which is for his defence. 3. Honejlum, that he do him no 
injury in his reputation. 4. Utile, that lie do no damage 
to him-in his poffeffions. 5. Facile-, and 6. Pqffibile, that 
he render it eafy for the lord to do any good, and not 
make that impoflible to be done which was before in his 
power to do : all which is comprifed in Leg. Hen. I. c. 5. 
The law with refpedl to fealty, continues the fame as 
when lord Coke wrote; for it does not appear to be va¬ 
ried by 12 Car. II. c. 24, or any other ftatutemade fince : 
but it is no longer the practice to exabt the performance 
of fealty. In the cafe of copyholders, it isbecome a thing 
of courfe on admitting them to enter a refpite of fealty ; 
but with refpedt to fitch as hold by other tenures, it is 
never thought of. In Wood’s In ft. 1.83, it is faid that 
lelfees for life or years ought t to do fealty to their lords 
for the lands they hold. However, it may not be amifs 
to remember, that the title to fealty ftill remains; that it 
is due from all tenants except tenants in frankalmoigne, 
and Inch as hold at will or by fuft'erance, and if required 
muft be iterated at every change of the lord ; it differing 
in this refpeft from homage, which, except in fpecial 
cafes, is only due once ; that the receiving of it is at lead; 
attended with the advantage of preferving the memory 
of tenures, which, though perhaps fufficiently done in the 
cafe of copyholds by the admittances, and by the payment 
of fines and quit-rents and continual render of other fer- 
vices, may be very neceftary in cafes where fealty is the 
only fervice due ; and laftly, that the law for compelling 
the performance of fealty has provided the remedy by 
diftrefs, which is an infeparable incident to all fervices 
due by tenure, and in the cafe of fealty cannot, as it is 
faid, be exceftive. ifiz/ 2 . 68, a. 4 Co. 8, b. 
FEAR,/] [peajian, Sax. to fear; vaer, Dut . fca/ile, 
Erfe.] Dread; horror; painful apprehenfion of danger. 
—Fear , in general, is that paftlon of our nature whereby 
we are excited to provide for our fecurity upon the ap¬ 
proach of evil. Rogers. — Yen'fear was upon them, becaufe 
of the people of thofe countries. Ezra, iii. 3. 
What then remains ? Are we depriv’d of will ? 
Muft we not with, for fear of wiftiing ill ? Dryden. 
Awe ; dejedtion of mind at the prefence of any perfon or 
thing; terror imprefled : with of before that which im- 
prefl'eth.—And the fear of you, and the dread of you, 
fhall be upon every beaft. Gen. ix. 2.—Anxiety ; folici- 
tude.—The principal fear was for the holy temple. Mac- 
-cabees. —That which caufes fear. The objedt of fear.— 
Except the God of Abraham, and the fear of Ifaac, had 
been with me. Gen. xxxi. 42.—Something hung up to 
fcare deer by its colour or noife.—He who fleeth from the 
noife of the fear fhall fall into the pit, and he that cometh 
up out of the mid ft of the pit, (hall betaken in the fnare. 
Jf. xxiv. 18. 
FEAR,/; [pteopa, Sax.] A companion. Olfolete : 
But fair Clarifta to a lovely fear 
Was linked, and by him had many pledges dear. Spenfer, 
D FEAR, a.a. [peapa, Sax.] To dread; to confiaer 
with apprehenfion of terror ; to be afraid of.—There (hall 
rife up a kingdom, and it fit a 11 be feared above all the 
kingdoms before it. zEfdr.xW. 13. 
To fear the foe, fince fear oppreffeth ftrength, 
Gives, in your weaknefs, ftrength unto your foe. Shakefp. 
To fright; to terrify; to make afraid.—The inhabitants, 
being feared with the Spaniards landing and burning, fled 
from their dwellings. Carew. 
Some, fitting on the hatches, would feem there, 
With hideous gazing, to fear away. fear. Donne. 
To FE AR, v.n. To live in horror ; to be afraid : 
If any fuch be here, if any fear 
Lefs for his perfon than an ill report ; 
If any think brave death outweighs bad life, Shakefpeare. 
Vol.VII. No. 426. 
To be anxious: 
See, pious king, with diff’rent ftiife, 
Thy ftruggling Albion’s bofom torn : 
So much (lie fears for William’s life, 
That Mary’s fate fhe dare not mourn. Prior. 
The influence of fear, both in occafioning and aggra¬ 
vating difeafes, is very great. Epileptic fits, and other 
convulfive diforde’rs, have often been occafioned by it. 
Hence it is dangerous to tamper with the human paflions ; 
for the mind may thus be thrown into fuch diforder, as 
never again to aft with regularity. Out of many inftances 
of thefe fatal effefts recorded in writers, the following is 
felefted as one of the mod Angular. “George Gro- 
chantzy, a Polander, who had inlifted as a foldier in the 
fervice of the king of Pruflia, defected during the war. 
A party was fent in purfuit of him ; and, when he lealt 
expefted it, they furprifed him finging and dancing among 
a company of peafants, who were making merry. This 
event, fo hidden and unforefeen, and fo dreadful in anti¬ 
cipating the fentence of being (hot, (truck him in fuch a 
manner, that, giving a loud ftsriek, he became at once alto¬ 
gether ftupidand infenfible. They carried him to Glocau, 
where lie was brought before the council of war. He ('of¬ 
fered himfelf to be led and difpofed of at the will of 
thofe about him, without uttering a word, or giving the 
leaft fign that he knew what had happened or would hap¬ 
pen to him. He remained immoveable as a ftatue vvhere- 
ever he was placed, and w r as wholly paflive with refpeft to 
all that was done to him or about him. During all the 
time that he was in cuftody, he neither ate, nor drank, nor 
flept, nor had any evacuation. Sonie of his comrades 
were fent to fee him ; after that he was vilited by fome 
officers of his corps and by fome priefts ; but he ftill con¬ 
tinued in the fame (late, without difeovering the leaft 
figns of fenfibility. Protnifes, intreaties, and threaten- 
ings, were equally ineffectual. The phyficians who were 
confulted upon his cafe were of opinion, that he was in a 
ftate of hopelefs idiocy. It was at firft fufpedted, that 
thofe appearances w’ere feigned; but thefe fufpicions 
gave way when it was know n that he had received no luf- 
tenancc, and that the involuntary functions of nature were 
in a great meafure fufpended. After fome time, they 
knocked off his fetters, and left him at liberty to go'whi¬ 
ther he would. He received his liberty with the fame 
infenfibility that he had (hewed upon other occafions .- he 
remained fixed and immoveable ; his eyes turned wildly 
about without taking cognizance of any object, and the 
muffles of his face were fallen and fixed like thofe oi a 
dead body. Being left to himfelf, he palled twenty days 
in this condition, without eating, drinking, or any evacu¬ 
ation, and died on the twentieth day. He had been fome- 
times heard to fetch deep fighs; and once he rufhed with 
great violence on a foldier who had a mug of liquor in 
his hand, forced the mug from him, drank the liquor with 
great eagernefs,‘and let the mug drop to the ground.” 
Other remarkable effefts of fear are the following : A 
boy, in one of the rudeft parts of the county of Clare, 
in Ireland, in order to deftroy fome eaglets lodged in a 
hole one hundred feet from the fumrrfit of a rock w hich 
rifes four hundred feet perpendicular from the fea, cailfed 
himfelf to be fufpended by a rope, with a feimetar in his 
hand for his defence, fhould he meet with an attack from 
the old ones ; which precaution was found neceftary ; for 
no fooner had his companions lowered him to the neft, 
than one of the old eagles made at him with great fury, 
at which he (truck, but, unfortunately miffing his ami, 
nearly cut through the rope that fupported him. De- 
feribing his horrible fituation to his comrades, they cau- 
tioufly, and fafely, drew him up, when it was found that 
his hair, which a quarter of an hour before was a dark 
auburn, was changed to grey. A fimilar inftance is given 
in a Selection of Anecdotes by L. J. Rede, under the ar¬ 
ticle Affright-, and the fame change in the hair is laid tq 
