685 POPE: _The Universal Prayer,_ St. 1.

=Fault--Faults.=

Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it?

686 SHAKS.: _M. for M.,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

687 HERBERT: _The Church Porch._

In vain my faults ye quote; I write as others wrote On Sunium's hight.

688 WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR: _The Last Fruit of an Old Tree,_ Epigram cvi.

=Favor.=

Poor wretches, that depend On greatness' favor, dream as I have done; Wake, and find nothing. But, alas, I swerve.

Many dream not to find, neither deserve, And yet are steep'd in favors.

689 SHAKS.: _Cymbeline,_ Act v., Sc. 4.

=Fawning.=

And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, Where thrift may follow fawning.

690 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

=Fear.=

Why, what should be the fear?

I do not set my life at a pin's fee; And, for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself?

691 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 4.

Of all base passions fear is most accurs'd.

692 SHAKS.: _1 Henry VI.,_ Act v., Sc. 2.

Desponding fear, of feeble fancies full, Weak and unmanly, loosens ev'ry power.

693 THOMSON: _Seasons, Spring,_ Line 286.

The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip To hand the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honor grip, Let that aye be your border.

694 BURNS: _Ep. to a Young Friend._

=Feasting.=

Blest be those feasts with simple plenty crown'd, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail, Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale.

695 GOLDSMITH: _Traveller,_ Line 17.

Swinish gluttony Ne'er looks to heav'n amidst his gorgeous feast, But with besotted base ingratitude Crams, and blasphemes his feeder.

696 MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 776.

=February.=

Come when the rains Have glazed the snow and clothed the trees with ice, While the slant sun of February pours Into the bowers a flood of light.

697 WILLIAM COLLEN BRYANT: _A Winter Piece._

=Feeling.=

But spite of all the criticising elves, Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.

698 CHURCHILL: _Rosciad,_ Line 961.

=Feet.=

Like snails did creep her pretty feet A little out, and then, As if they played at bo-peep, Did soon draw in again.

699 HERRICK: _Aph. Upon Her Feet._

=Fellow.=

In all thy humors, whether grave or mellow, Thou 'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, Hast so much wit and mirth and spleen about thee, There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

700 ADDISON: _Spectator._ No. 68.

=Female.=

But who is this, what thing of sea or land,-- Female of sex it seems.

701 MILTON: _Samson Agonistes,_ Line 710.

=Fickleness.=

Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain!

Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream.

702 SCOTT: _Lady of the Lake,_ Canto v., St. 10.

=Fiction.=

When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, Men will believe, because they love the lie; But truth herself, if clouded with a frown, Must have some solemn proof to pass her down.

703 CHURCHILL: _Epis. to Hogarth,_ Line 291.

And truth severe, by fairy fiction drest.

704 GRAY: _The Bard,_ Pt. iii., St. 3.

=Fidelity.=