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years of age began to attract the notice of the world by 
his literary productions. He acquired fo high a reputa¬ 
tion, that Philip III. was induced to fix upon him for the 
office of preceptor to the infant Don Carlos. At the 
time when he was nominated to that honourable appoint¬ 
ment he refided at Louvain ; whence he departed to pro¬ 
ceed by fea to Spain; but the fhip in which he embarked 
was unfortunately wrecked, and he lolt his life when in 
the flower of his age. He was the author of feveral 
works, abounding in erudition ; among which were, 1. De 
Studii Philofophici Ratione 2. De Ufa & Exercitatione Dia- 
lecti. 3. In Topka Ciceronis Paraphrafn. 4. De Honore. 
5. De Juventute. 6 . De Regno & Regis In.fhlutione, lib. iii. 
6 . De Natura Philofophorum, Jeu de Platonis & Arijiotelis Con- 
fenjione, Ub. v. 7. De Conjcribenda Hijloria. 8. In Platonis 
Ti?na:u>n,feu de Univerfo Commentarius. 9. In Phcedonem, &c. 
FOX-GLOVE, f. in botany ; fee Digitalis. 
FOX-GRAPE, f. in botany ; fee Vitis vulpina. 
FOX I'SLAND, an ifland in the Atlantic, on the weft 
coaft of Ireland, feven miles eaft from Slyme Head. 
FOXISLANDS. See Archipelago (Northern), 
vol. ii. p. 63. 
FOX RI'VER, a river of Lower Canada, which runs 
into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, three leagues north-north- 
weft of Cape Rofieres. 
FOX-TAIL GRASS,/, in botany ; fee Alopecurus. 
FOX'BOROUGH, a townfhip of the American States, 
in Norfolk county, Maffachufetts, containing 674 inhabi¬ 
tants, twenty-fix miles fouth of Bofton. It was formerly 
a part of Dorchefter, and was incorporated in 1778. 
FOX'CASE, f A fox’s Ikin.—One had better be 
laughed at for taking a foxcafe for a fox, than be deftroy- 
ed by taking a live fox for a cafe. L'Ef range, 
FOX'CHASE,/ The purfuit of the fox with hounds. 
See the article Hunting. 
See the fame man, in vigour, in the gout j 
Alone, in company ; in place or out; 
Early at bufinefs, and at hazard late ; 
Mad at a foxekafe, wife at a debate. Pope. 
FOXER'NA, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Weft-Gothland : twenty-five miles north of Gothenburg. 
FOX'EVIL, f. Akindofdifeafe in which the hair (heds. 
FOX-PIOUND, f. A hound for a fox-chafe. 
Who lavifties his wealth, 
On racer fox-hound, hawk, or fpaniel. Shenfone. 
FOX-HUNTING,/. The diverfion of hunting foxes. 
—Hence a tranfition to fox-hunting, which is defcribed in 
all its parts. Argument to Somerville's Chafe, b. iii. 
FOX-HUNTER, f A man whofe chief ambition is to 
fliew his bravery in hunting foxes.—The fox-hunters went 
their way, and then out deals the fox. L'EJlrange. —John 
Wildfire, fox hunter, broke his neck over a fix-bar gate. 
Spe&ator. 
FOX'SHIP, f. The character or qualities of a fox; 
cunning ; mifehievous art. 
Had’d thou foxjkip. 
To banifli him that ftruck more blows for Rome 
Than thou haft fpoken words. Shakefpeare. 
FOX'TOWN, a town of the American States, in the 
ftate of New York : twenty-four miles weft of New York. 
FOX'TRAP, /. A gin or fnare to catch foxes.—A11- 
fwer a queftion, at what hour of the night to fet a jox - 
trap? Tatler. 
POY, f. [foi, Fr.J Faith; allegiance. 
He Eafterland fubdued, and Denmark won. 
And of them both did foy and tribute raife. Spenfer. 
FOY-FOE, a town and fea-port of Cochin-China, 
chiefly inhabited by Chinefe, and a few Japanefe, who 
manage the trade of the place, and import various arti¬ 
cles from Canton, Siam, Camboja, and Batavia. Oppo- 
fite the entrance of the bay ftand the ifles of Champellos; 
the channel between which and the town is obftrudted by 
FRA 
a bar, though not infurmountable at high water to (hips 
of fome burden. The Englifh under Mr. Bowyearwere 
encouraged to fettle a fadtory here, which was fet on foot, 
but never carried into eftedt. 
To FOYLE, v. a. \_fouler, Fr.] To trample on. 
Whom he did all to pieces breake and foyle. 
I11 filthy daft, and left fo in the loatheiy foyle; Spenfer. 
FOYLE, a river of Ireland, which palfes by London¬ 
derry, and four miles below expands itfelf into a large 
bay, called Lough Foyle-, twelve miles long, and feven 
broad, and land-locked on all Tides, the entrance not being 
above half a mile wide, having only one deep channel in 
the middle, between fands and (hallows, 
FOY'LING. See Foiling. 
FOYNS I'SLAND, an ifland of Ireland, in the Shan¬ 
non, twenty-one miles below Limerick. 
FOY'SON. See Foison. 
To FOY'ZEN, v.a. A word much ufed by Shake¬ 
fpeare in his poems, meaning probably “ to deferibe faith¬ 
fully andaccurately.”—Speak of the fpring and foyzen 
all the year. Shakefpeare. 
FOZ, a town of Portugal, in the province of Alentejo, 
at the conflux of the Zatas and the Tagus : eight leagues 
north-eaft of Lifbon. 
FOZ, a town of France, in the department of the 
Mouths of the Rhone, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftridt of Arles: five miles weft-north-weft of Martigues. 
FOZ, a town of France, in the department of the Var, 
and chief place of a canton, in the diftridt of Barjois: 
four miles north-eaft of Barjois. 
FOZZA'NO, a town of the ifland of Corfica: four miles 
north of Sarfano. 
FRACASTO'RO (Jerom), one of the mod eminent 
of the learned Italians of the fixteenth century, a pliyfi- 
cian, philofopher, and poet, defeended from an ancient 
family of Verona, where he was born in 1483. He ftudied 
at Padua, and was a difciple in philofophy of the cele¬ 
brated Pomponazzi. Though medicine was his profef- 
fional fcience, yet he purfued with ardour the ftudy of 
claflical literature, mathematics, aflronomy, cofmography, 
and natural hiftory; and few perfons of his time became 
equally (killed in thefe points of knowledge, or purfued 
them with fo much originality of genius. He was ap¬ 
pointed profelforof logic at Padua, at the age of nineteen; 
but quitted the chair within a few years, in order to at¬ 
tend to his other purfuits. Pie pafled fome years at Por- 
denone, with the celebrated general Alviano, who had 
founded there an illuftrious academy. Afterwards he re¬ 
tired to Verona, and pafled great part of his life at his 
delightful feat on the hill of Incaffi, either in the bo(om 
of his family, or amid a feledt party of friends, to whom 
he was endeared by the fuavity of his manners, and the 
variety of his acquifitions. Of the manner in which he 
pafled his time in this retreat, he has left a mod pleafing 
(ketch, in an elegant epiftle in Latin verfe, to his inti¬ 
mate friend, Francis Turrianus. His reputation caufed 
him to be appointed pbyfician to the council of Trent; 
and it was from his advice that, through fear of a conta¬ 
gious difeafe, the. aflembly was transferred, in 1547, to 
Bologna. He died at his country feat of an apoplexy, iti~ 
1553, and was buried in the church of St. Euphemia, at 
Verona, which city honoured his memory by a ftatue, 
eredted at the public expence, in the principal fquare. 
The principal of his compofitions is a didadtic poem rela¬ 
tive to his own profeflion, entitled Siphilis,fve Morbus Gal- 
licus, dedicated to cardinal Bembo. It was firft publilhed 
in 1521, and numerous editions and tranflations of it have 
been made. The author’s other poems are, Aleon , or upon 
hunting-dogs; an unfiniflied poem on the life of Jofepli, 
the languid performance of his advanced years; and fe¬ 
veral very agreeable epiflles and fmaller pieces. A few 
compofitions in Italian verfe which lie left, difplay equal 
talents for vernacular poetry. His dialogue in Latin profe, 
entitled Naugerius, five de Poetica , contains the precepts of 
the 
