FEET.-Her feet, beneath her petticoat,
Like little mice, stole in and out,
As if they fear'd the light:

But oh! she dances such a way!
No sun upon an Easter-day
Is half so fine a sight.

SIR JOHN SUCKLING.-A Ballad upon a Wedding,
Verse 8.

Her pretty feet like snails did creep

A little out, and then,

As if they played at bo-peep,

Did soon draw in again.

HERRICK.-The Hesperides, Amatory Odes,
No. 207.

Whose feet they hurt in the stocks: the iron entered into his soul.

PSALM CV. Verse 18.

I heard his chains upon his legs, as he turned his body to lay his little stick upon the bundle. He gave a deep sigh: I saw the iron enter into his soul.

STERNE.-The Captive.

FELICITY.-Still to ourselves in every place consign'd,
Our own felicity we make or find.

GOLDSMITH.-The Traveller, Line 431.

Since every man who lives is born to die,

And none can boast sincere felicity,

With equal minds what happens let us bear,

Nor joy, nor grieve too much for things beyond our care.
Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend;

The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.
DRYDEN.-Palemon and Arcite, Book III.
Line 883.

FELL.-I do not love thee, Doctor Fell,

The reason why I cannot tell;
But this alone I know full well,

I do not love thee, Doctor Fell.

BROWNE.-Dialogues of the Dead; from Martial,
Epigram XXXIII.; 5 Notes and Queries 355.

From morn to noon he fell,

From noon to dewy eve.

MILTON.-Paradise Lost, Book I. Line 742.

FELLOW.-A fellow almost damn'd in a fair wife,
That never set a squadron in the field,

Nor the division of a battle knows

More than a spinster.

SHAKSPERE.-Othello, Act I. Scene 1.
(Iago to Roderigo.)

FENCE.-Plague on't; an I thought he had been valiant, and so cunning in fence, I'd have seen him damned ere I'd have challenged him.

SHAKSPERE.—Twelfth Night, Act III. Scene 4. (Sir Andrew Aguecheek.)

FICTION.-As mere fiction as ever came from a traveller or a newspaper.

FIELDING.-The Good-natured Man, Act II.
Scene 2.

FIELDS.-'A babbled of green fields.

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry V. Act II. Scene 3.
(Mrs. Pistol to Bardolph.)

FIEND.-Sɔ spake the Fiend, and with necessity,
The tyrant's plea, excus'd his devilish deeds.

MILTON.-Paradise Lost, Book IV. Line 393.

I pull in resolution; and begin to doubt.

SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act V, Scene 5.
(To himself.)

FIGHT.-I'll fight, till from my bones my flesh be hack'd.
SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act V. Scene 3.
(To Seyton.)

[These lines are almost universally supposed to form a part of Hudibras. Butler has, indeed, two or three passages somewhat similar. For example,—

For those that run away, and fly,

Take place at least of th' enemy.

And again

HUDIBRAS.-Part I. Canto III. Line 609.

For those that fly may fight again,
Which he can never do that's slain.

HUDIBRAS.-Part III. Canto III. Line 243.

MR Collet, however, refers us to a small volume of Poems by Sir John Mennes, written in the reign of Charles II., and says the original of the couplet may be traced to Demosthenes, who has a passage of which the English lines above are almost a literal translation.-Relics of Literature, page 185. But if we can trace the original idea to a much higher source than Demosthenes, we shall approach nearer to the author of the idea itself, whoever may have composed the couplet. In Plutarch's Morals, we are told that Archilochus (a famous Greek poet and musician, who lived three centuries prior to Demosthenes) set the example of fighting and flying, and said, "It is much easier to get a new buckler than a new existence." The translation of the lines of Archilochus, on excusing his cowardice, runs thus:

Nature's not honour's laws, we must obey:
This made me cast my shield away,

And by a prudent flight and cunning save
A life, which valour could not, from the grave.
A better buckler I can soon regain,

But who can get another life again?

ARCHILOCHUS.-Plutarch's Morals; Essay on the
Laws, &c., of the Lacedemonians, Part I.;
translated by Mr. John Pulleyn, Trinity College,
Cambridge, 1684.

This fact seems to set at rest the question as to the originator
of the saying, and brings us a little nearer to the author of the
lines. In Murray's Handbook of Familiar Quotations, the fair
compiler of that book gives a quaint couplet from a work of
NICHOLAS VDALL [UDAL], published in 1542, as follows:-
That same man, that rennith awaie,
Maie again fight, an other daie.]

FINE.-Fine by degrees, and beautifully less.
PRIOR.-Henry and Emma.

Fine by defect, and delicately weak.

POPE.-Moral Essays, Epistle II. Line 43.

Fine words, I wonder where you stole 'em.
SWIFT.-Whitshed's Motto.

FIGURE.—A figure of truth, of faith, of loyalty.

SHAKSPERE.-Pericles, Act V. Scene 3. (Gower.)

FINGER.-No man's pie is freed

From his ambitious finger.

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry VIII. Act I. Scene 1. (Buckingham.)

FINGER. In faith, I'll break thy little finger, Harry,
An if thou wilt not tell me all things true.

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry IV. Part I. Act II.
Scene 3. (Lady Percy to Hotspur.)

FIRE.-Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.

SHAKSPERE. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act I.
Scene 2. (Lucetta.)

Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth.

GENESIS.-EPISTLE OF ST. JAMES.-Chap. III.
Verse 5.

As from one fatal spark arise
The flames, aspiring to the skies,
And all the crackling wood consumes.

WHEELWRIGHT'S PINDAR.-3rd Pythian Ode,
Line 66.

A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.

HERRICK.-Hesperides, Aphorisms, No. 152.
SHAKSPERE. — King Henry VI. Part III.
Act IV. Scene 8. (Clifford to Warwick.)

Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand,
They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
POPE.-Prologue to Satires.

From small fires comes oft no small mishap.

GEORGE HERBERT.-The Temple Artillery.

And where two raging fires meet together,

They do consume the thing that feeds their fury.

SHAKSPERE. Taming of the Shrew, Act II.
Scene 1. (Petruchio to his Father-in-law.)

FIRSTLINGS-The very firstlings of my heart shall be
The firstlings of my hand.

SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act IV. Scene 1.

(Meditating the surprise of Macduff's castle, and the destruction of his line.)

FIST.-With his fist, instead of a stick,

Beat pulpit drum ecclesiastic.

BUTLER.-Hudibras, Elegy, Line 63.

Bring up thy van,

My heels are fettered, but my fist is free.

MILTON. Samson Agonistes.

FIST.-His wither'd fist still knocking at death's door. SACKVILLE.-Mirror of Magistrates, Verse 17.

FIT.-Then comes my fit again.

SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act III. Scene 4.
(On the escape of Fleance.)

Countess.-Will your answer serve fit to all questions?
Clodio. As fit as ten groats is for the hand of an attorney.
SHAKSPERE-All's Well that Ends Well, Aet II.
Scene 2.

FLATTERY.-O, that men should be

To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!

SHAKSPERE.-Timon of Athens, Act I. Seene 2. last lines.

FLEET.-The Spanish-fleet thou canst not see-
-It is not yet in sight!

SHERIDAN. The Critic, Act II. Scene 2.

FLESH.-O, that this too too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!

SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act I. Scene 2.

-because

(Soliloquy on the unprofitableness of the world, the recent marriage of his mother, and the comparison between his uncle and his father.)

FLINT-The fire i' the flint
Shews not till it be struck.

SHAKSPERE.-Timon of Athens, Act I. Scene 1.
(Poet.)

O, Cassius, you are yoked to a lamb

That carries anger as the flint bears fire;

Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark,

And straight is cold again.

SHAKSPERE.-Julius Cæsar, Act IV. Scene 3.
(Brutus to Cassius.)

FLOGGING.-Had it not been for him, we should never have known, that in the city of Athens children cried when they were flogged: we owe that discovery to his profound erudition.

LE SAGE.-Gil Blas, Book II. Chap. IX.

FLOWER.-Yet, mournfully surviving all,

A flower upon a ruin's wall.

MRS. HEMANS.-The Brigand Leader, Verse 5.
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