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.
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.