Fanny (Lord). So John Lord Hervey was usually called by the wits of the time, in consequence of his effeminate habits. His appearance was that of a “half-wit, half-fool, half-man, half-beau.” He used rouge, drank ass’s milk, and took Scotch pills (1694-1743).

Consult Lord Fanny, and confide in Curll [_publisher_]. Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809).

Fanny (Miss), younger daughter of Mr. Sterling, a rich City merchant. She was clandestinely married to Lovewell. “Gentle-looking, soft-speaking, sweet-smiling, and affable,” wanting “nothing but a crook in her hand and a lamb under her arm to be a perfect picture of innocence and simplicity.” Every one loved her, and as her marriage was a secret, Sir John Melvil and Lord Ogleby both proposed to her. Her marriage with Lovewell being ultimately made known, her dilemma was removed.—Colman and Garrick, The Clandestine Marriage (1766).

=Fan´teries= (3 syl.), foot-soldiers, infantry.

Five other bandes of English fanteries. G. Gascoigne, 1535-1577, The Fruites of Warre (1575)

=Fantine=. Parisian girl, deserted by her lover and left to support her child as best she can. Her heroic self-devotion is one of the most interesting episodes of Les Miserables, a romance by Victor Hugo.

=Faquir´=, a religious anchorite, whose life is spent in the severest austerities and mortification.

He diverted himself, however ... especially with the Brahmins, faquirs, and other enthusiasts who had travelled from the heart of India, and halted on their way with the emir.—W. Beckford, Vathek (1786).

=Farçeur= (The), Angelo Beolco, the Italian farce-writer. Called Ruzzante in Italian, from ruzzare, “to play the fool” (1502-1542).

=Farina´ta= [DEGLI UBERTI], a noble Florentine, leader of the Ghibeline faction, and driven from his country in 1250 by the Guelfs (1 syl.). Some ten years later by the aid of Manfred of Naples, he beat the Guelfs, and took all the towns of Tuscany and Florence. Danté conversed with him in the city of Dis, and represents him as lying in a fiery tomb yet open, and not to be closed till the last judgment day. When the council agreed to raze Florence to the ground, Farinata opposed the measure, and saved the city. Dantê refers to this:

Lo! Farinata ... his brow Somewhat uplifted, cried ... “In that affray [i.e. _at Montaperto, near the river Arbia_] I stood not singly ... But singly there I stood, when by consent Of all, Florence had to the ground been razed,— The one who openly forbade the deed.” Dante, Inferno, x. (1300). Like Farinata from his fiery tomb. Longfellow, Dante.

=Farm-boy.=

“Over the hill the farm-boy goes, His shadow lengthens along the land, A giant staff in a giant hand. In the poplar tree above the spring The katydid begins to sing; The early dews are falling. * * * * * And home to the woodland fly the crows, While over the hill the farm-boy goes, Cheerily calling, ‘Co’ boss! co’ boss! co’! co’! co’!’” J.T. Trowbridge, Evening at the Farm (1857).

=Farmer Finch=, girl who works her invalid father’s farm for him and makes it pay.—Sarah Orne Jewett, Farmer Finch.

=Farm-house= (The). Modely and Heartwell, two gentlemen of fashion, come into the country and receive hospitality from old Farmer Freehold. Here they make love to his daughter Aura and his niece Flora. The girls, being high-principled, convert the flirtation of the two guests into love, and Heartwell marries the niece, while Modely proposes to Aura, who accepts him, provided he will wait two months and remain constant to her.—John Philip Kemble.

=Farmer George=, George III.; so called because he was like a farmer in dress, manners, and tastes (1738-1820).

=Farmer’s Wife= (The), a musical drama by C. Dibdin (1780). Cornflower, a benevolent, high-minded farmer, having saved Emma Belton from the flames of a house on fire, married her, and they lived together in love and peace till Sir Charles Courtly took a fancy to Mrs. Cornflower, and abducted her. She was soon tracked, and as it was evident that she was no particeps criminis, she was restored to her husband, and Sir Charles gave his sister to Mrs. Cornflower’s brother in marriage as a peace-offering.

=Farnese Bull= [_Far.nay´.ze_], a colossal group of sculpture, attributed to Apollõnius and Tauriscus of Trallês, in Asia Minor. The group represents Dircê bound by Zethus and Amphi´on to the horns of a bull, for ill-using their mother. It was restored by Bianchi, in 1546, and placed in the Farnesê palace, in Italy.

=Farnese He´rcules= [_Far.nay´.ze_], a name given to Glykon’s copy of the famous statue by Lysippos (a Greek sculptor in the time of Alexander “the Great”). It represents Hercules leaning on his club, with one hand on his back. The Farnesê family became extinct in 1731.

=Fashion= (Sir Brilliant), a man of the world, who “dresses fashionably, lives fashionably, wins your money fashionably, loses his own fashionably, and does everything fashionably.” His fashionable asservations are, “Let me perish, if ...!” “May fortune eternally frown on me, if ...!” “May I never hold four by honors, if ...!” “May the first woman I meet strike me with a supercilious eyebrow, if ...!” and so on.—A. Murphy, The Way to Keep Him (1760).

Fashion (Tom), or “Young Fashion,” younger brother of Lord Foppington. As his elder brother did not behave well to him, Tom resolved to outwit him, and to this end introduced himself to Sir Tunbelly Clumsy and his daughter, Miss Hoyden, as Lord Foppington, between whom and the knight a negotiation of marriage had been carried on. Being established in the house, Tom married the heiress, and when the veritable lord appeared, he was treated as an impositor. Tom, however, explained his ruse, and as his lordship treated the knight with great contempt and quitted the house, a reconciliation was easily effected.—Sheridan, A Trip to Scarborough (1777).

=Fashionable Lover= (The). Lord Abberville, a young man of 23 years of age, promises marriage to Lucinda Bridgemore, the vulgar, spiteful, purse-proud daughter of a London merchant, living in Fish Street Hill. At the house of this merchant Lord Abberville sees a Miss Aubrey, a handsome, modest, lady-like girl, with whom he is greatly smitten. He first tries to corrupt her, and then promises marriage; but Miss Aubrey is already engaged to a Mr. Tyrrel. The vulgarity and ill-nature of Lucinda being quite insurmountable, “the fashionable lover” abandons her, The chief object of the drama is to root out the prejudice which Englishmen at one time entertained against the Scotch, and the chief character is in reality Colin or Cawdie Macleod, a Scotch servant of Lord Abberville.—R. Cumberland (1780).

=Fastolfe= (Sir John), in 1 Henry VI. This is not the “Sir John Falstaff” of huge proportions and facetious wit, but the Lieutenant-general of the duke of Bedford, and a knight of Garter.

Here had the conquest fully been sealed up If Sir John Fastolfe had not played the coward: He being in the vanward ... Cowardly fled, not having struck one stroke. Shakespeare, 1 Henry VI. act i. sc. 1 (1589).

From this battell [_of Pataie, in France_] departed without anie stroke striken, Sir John Fastolfe.... The duke of Bedford tooke from him the image of St. George and his garter.—Holinshed, ii. 601.

=Fastra´da= or FASTRADE, daughter of Count Rudolph and Luitgarde. She was one of the nine wives of Charlemagne.

Those same soft bells at even-tide Rang in the ears of Charlemagne, As seated by Fastrada’s side, At Ingelheim, in all his pride, He heard their sound with secret pain. Longfellow, Golden Legend, vi.

=Fat= (The). Alfonso II. of Portugal (1185, 1212-1223). Charles II. (le Gros) of France (832-882). Louis VI. (le Gros) of France (1078, 1108-1137).

Edward Bright of Essex weighed 44 stone (616 lbs.) at death (1720-1750). David Lambert of Leicester weighed above 52 stone (739 lbs.) at death (1770-1809).

=Fata Alci´na=, sister of Fata Morga´na. She carried off Astolfo on the back of a whale to her isle, but turned him into a myrtle tree when she tired of him.—Bojardo, Orlando Innamorato (1495); Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (1516).

=Fata Ar´gea= (“le reina della Fata”), protectress Floridantê.

=Fata Falsire´na=, an enchantress in the Adonê of Marini (1623).

=Fata della Fonti=, an enchantress, from whom Mandricardo obtained the arms of Hector.—Bojardo, Orlando Innamorato (1495).

=Fata Morga´na=, sister of Arthur, and pupil of Merlin. She lived at the bottom of a lake, and dispensed her treasures to whom she willed. This fairy is introduced by Bojardo in his Orlando Innamorato, first as “Lady Fortune,” but subsequently as an enchantress. In Tasso her three daughters (Morganetta, Nivetta, and Carvilia) are introduced.

⁂ “Fata Morgana” is the name given to a sort of mirage occasionally seen in the Straits of Messi´na.

=Fata Nera and Fata Bianca=, protectresses of Guido´nê and Aquilantê.—Bojardo, Orlando Innamorato (1495).

=Fata Silvanella=, an enchantress in Orlando Innamorato, by Bojardo (1495).

=Fatal Curiosity=, an epilogue in Don Quixote (pt. I. iv. 5, 6). The subject of this tale is the trial of a wife’s fidelity. Anselmo, a Florentine gentleman, had married Camilla, and wishing to rejoice over her incorruptible fidelity, induced his friend Lothario to put it to the test. The lady was not trial-proof, but eloped with Lothario. The end was that Anselmo died of grief, Lothario was slain in battle, and Camilla died in a convent (1605).