Having read this strange relation,
  He was in a consternation;
  But, advising with a friend,
  He persuades him to attend: 
  “Be of courage and make ready,
  Faint heart never won fair lady.”

Quarterly Review, cvi. 205-245.

Faint Heart never Won Fair Lady, name of a petit comedie brought out by Mde.  Vestris at the Olympic.  Mde.  Vestris herself performed the part of the “fair lady.”

FAIR PENITENT (The) a tragedy by Rowe (1703).  Calista was daughter of Lord Sciol’to (3 syl.), and bride of Lord Al’tamont.  It was discovered on the wedding-day that she had been seduced by Lotha’rio.  This led to a duel between the bridegroom and the libertine, in which Lothario was killed; a street riot ensued, in which Sciolto receives his death-wound; and Calista, “the fair penitent,” stabbed herself.  The drama is a mere rechauffe of Massinger’s Fatal Dowry.

FAIRBROTHER (Mr.), counsel of Effie Deans at the trial.—­Sir W. Scott, Heart of Midlothian (time, George II.).

FAIRFAX (Thomas, lord), father of the duchess of Buckingham.—­Sir W. Scott, Peveril of the Peak (time, Charles II.).

Fairfax (Rutherford). Young man born of a line of brave men, who is conscious that early petting at home and a foreign education have developed physical cowardice.  On his way home from England he falls into the hands of desperadoes who force him to fire a pistol at a bound man.  The lad is almost fainting, and swoons with pain and horror when the deed is, as he thinks, done.  His father believes him a coward, and the sense of this and a loving woman’s trust in him, nerve him to deeds of endurance and valor that clear his record triumphantly.—­Octave Thanet, Expiation (1890).

FAIRFIELD, the miller, and father of Patty “the maid of the mill.”  An honest, straightforward man, grateful and modest.—­Bickerstaff, The Maid of the Mill (1647).

FAIRFORD (Mr. Alexander or Saunders), a lawyer.

Allan Fairford, a young barrister, son of Saunders, and a friend of Darsie Latimer.  He marries Lilias Redgauntlet, sister of Sir Arthur Darsie Redgauntlet, called “Darsie Latimer.”

Peter Fairford, Allan’s cousin.—­Sir W. Scott, Redgauntlet (time, George III.).

FAIRLEIGH (Frank), the pseudonym of F.E.  Smedley, editor of Sharpe’s London Magazine (1848, 1849).  It was in this magazine that Smedley’s two novels, Frank Fairleigh and Louis Arundel were first published.

FAIRLIMB, sister of Bitelas, and daughter of Rukenaw the ape, in the beast-epic called Reynard the Fox (1498).

FAIR MAID OF PERTH.  Heroine of Scott’s novel of same name.

FAIR’SCRIEVE (2 syl.), clerk of Mr. James Middleburgh, a magistrate of Edinburgh.—­Sir W. Scott, Heart of Midlothian (time, George II.).