I were a fifth,' iv. 312.

_Filosofo. 'Tu sei santo, ma tu non sei filosofo_' (Giannone), iv. 3.

FINE. 'Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a
passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out' (a
college tutor), ii. 237;
'Were I to have anything fine, it should be very fine,'
iv. 179; v. 364.

FINGERS. 'I e'en tasted Tom's fingers,' ii. 403.

FIRE. 'A man cannot make fire but in proportion as he has fuel,' &c.,
v. 229;
'If it were not for depriving the ladies of the fire I should like
to stand upon the hearth myself,' iv. 304, n. 4;
'Would cry, Fire! Fire! in Noah's flood' (Butler), v. 57, n. 2.

FISHES. 'If a man comes to look for fishes you cannot blame him
if he does not attend to fowls,' v. 221.

FLATTERERS. 'The fellow died merely from want of change among his
flatterers,' v. 396, n. 1.

FLATTERY. 'Dearest lady, consider with yourself what your flattery is
worth, before you bestow it so freely,' iv. 341.

FLEA. 'A flea has taken you such a time that a lion must have served
you a twelvemonth,' ii. 194;
'There is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a
flea,' iv. 193.

FLING. 'If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to break
his head,' &c., i. 398.

FLOUNDERS. 'He flounders well,' v. 93, n. 1; 'Till he is at the
bottom he flounders,' v. 243.

FLY. 'A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince, but
one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still,' i. 263, n. 3.

FOLLY. 'There are in these verses too much folly for madness, and
too much madness for folly,' iii. 258, n. 2.

FOOL. 'I should never hear music, if it made me such a fool,' iii.
197;
'There's danger in a fool' (Churchill), v. 217, n. 1.

FOOLISH. 'I would almost be content to be as foolish,' iii. 21, n, 2;
'It is a foolish thing well done,' ii. 210.

FOOLS. 'I never desire to meet fools anywhere,' iii. 299, n. 2.

FOOTMAN. 'A well-behaved fellow citizen, your footman,' i. 447.

FOREIGNERS. 'For anything I see foreigners are fools'
('Old' Meynell), iv. 15.

FORTUNE. 'It is gone into the city to look for a fortune,' ii. 126.

FORWARD. 'He carries you round and round without carrying you
forward to the point; but then you have no wish to be carried
forward,' iv. 48.

FOUR-PENCE. 'Garrick was bred in a family whose study was to make
four-pence do as much as others made fourpence halfpenny do,' iii.
387.

FRANCE. 'Will reduce us to babble a dial