III.  THE LEGEND or BRITOMARTIS, chaste love. Britomartis is Diana or
Queen Elizabeth (1590).

IV.  CAMBEL AND TRIAMOND, fidelity (1596).

V. THE LEGEND OF SIR AR’TEGAL, justice’ (1596).

VI.  THE LEGEND OF SIR CALIDORE, courtesy (1596).

[Illustration] Sometimes bk. vii., called. Mutability, is added; but only fragments of this book exist.

FAFNIS, the dragon with which Sigurd fights.—­Sigurd the Horny (a
German romance based on a Norse legend).

FAG, the lying servant of Captain Absolute.  He “wears his master’s wit, as he does his lace, at second hand.”—­Sheridan, The Rivals (1775).

FAGGOT (Nicholas), clerk to Matthew Foxley, the magistrate who examined Darsie Latimer (i. e.  Sir Arthur Darsie Redgauntlet) after he had been attacked by rioters.—­Sir W. Scott, Redgauntlet (time, George III.).

FAGGOTS AND FAGGOTS (II y a fagots et fagots), all things of the same sort are not equal in quality.  In Moliere’s Le Medecin Malgre Lui, Sganarelle wants to show that his faggots are better than those of other persons, and cries out “Ay! but those faggots are not equal to mine.”

II est vrai, messieurs, que je suis le premier homme du monde pour faire des fagots ...

Je n’y epargne aucune chose, et les fais d’une facon qu’il n’y a rien a dire ...  Il y a fagots, et fagots.—­Act i. 6 (1666).

FAGIN, an old Jew, who employs a gang of thieves, chiefly boys.  These boys he teaches to pick pockets and pilfer adroitly.  Fagin assumes a most suave and fawning manner, but is malicious, grasping, and full of cruelty.—­C.  Dickens, Oliver Twist (1837).

FAINALL, cousin by marriage to Sir Wilful Witwould.  He married a young, wealthy, and handsome widow, but the two were cat and dog to each other.  The great aim of Fainall was to get into his possession the estates of his wife (settled on herself “in trust to Edward Mirabell"), but in this he failed.  In outward semblance, Fainall was plausible enough, but he was a goodly apple rotten at the core, false to his friends, faithless to his wife, overreaching, and deceitful.

Mrs. Fainall.  Her first husband was Languish, son of Lady Wishford.  Her second husband she both despised and detested.—­W.  Congreve, The Way of the World (1700).

FAINASO’LIS, daughter of Craca’s king (the Shetland Isles).  When Fingal was quite a young man, she fled to him for protection against Sora, but scarcely had he promised to take up her cause, when Sora landed, drew the bow, and she fell.  Fingal said to Sora, “Unerring is thy hand, O Sora, but feeble was the foe.”  He then attacked the invader, and Sora fell.—­Ossian, Fingal, iii.

FAINT HEART NEVER WON FAIR LADY, a line in a ballad written to the “Berkshire Lady,” a Miss Frances Kendrick, daughter of Sir William Kendrick, second baronet.  Sir William’s father was created baronet by Charles II.  The wooer was a Mr. Child, son of a brewer at Abingdon, to whom the lady sent a challenge.