=Fall.=

He that is down, needs fear no fall.

664 BUNYAN: _The Author's Way of Sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim,_ Pt. ii.

=Falsity.=

As false As air, as water, as wind, as sandy earth; As fox to lamb; as wolf to heifer's calf; Pard to the hind, or stepdame to her son.

665 SHAKS.: _Troil. and Cress.,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

=Fame.=

Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live register'd upon our brazen tombs.

666 SHAKS.: _Love's L. Lost,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

Fame, if not double-faced, is double-mouthed, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds: On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight.

667 MILTON: _Samson Agonistes,_ Line 971.

What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, even before our death.

668 POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. iv., Line 237.

There was a morning when I longed for fame, There was a noontide when I passed it by.

There is an evening when I think not shame Its substance and its being to deny.

669 JEAN INGELOW: _The Star's Monument,_ St. 81.

Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?

670 BEATTIE: _Minstrel,_ Bk. i., St. 1.

Or ravish'd with the whistling of a name, See Cromwell, damn'd to everlasting fame!

671 POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. iv., Line 281.

=Family.=

Birds in their little nest agree; And 'tis a shameful sight When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight.

672 WATTS: _Divine Songs,_ Song xvii.

=Famine.=

Famine is in thy cheeks.

673 SHAKS.: _Rom. and Jul.,_ Act v., Sc. 1.

=Fancy.=

Tell me, where is fancy bred; Or in the heart, or in the head?

How begot, how nourished?

Reply, reply.

It is engendered in the eyes, With gazing fed: and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies.

674 SHAKS.: _M. of Venice,_ Act iii., Sc. 2. _Song._

She's all my fancy painted her; She's lovely, she's divine.

675 WILLIAM MEE: _Alice Gray._

=Farewell.=

Farewell! Farewell! Through keen delights It strikes two hearts, this word of woe.

Through every joy of life it smites,-- Why, sometime they will know.

676 MARY CLEMMER: _Farewell._

Farewell! a word that must be, and hath been: A sound which makes us linger;--yet--farewell!

677 BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iv., St. 186.

=Fashion.=

The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

678 SHAKS.: _Much Ado,_ Act iii., Sc. 3.

=Fate.=

What fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide.

679 SHAKS.: _3 Henry VI.,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.

All human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

680 DRYDEN: _MacFlecknoe,_ Line 1.

Things are where things are, and, as fate has willed, So shall they be fulfilled.

681 ROBERT BROWNING: _Agamemnon._

And binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.

682 POPE: _The Universal Prayer,_ St. 3.

For fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are misery and man!

688 POPE: _Odyssey,_ Bk. vii., Line 263.

=Father.=

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

684 SHAKS.: _M. of Venice,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

Father of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord.