A GLOSSARY

There's no disjunction to be made, but by
(As heav'ns forefend) your ruin. Winter's T., iv, 3.
When two vex'd clouds justle, they strike out fire,
And you, I fear me, war; which peace forefend.

Jeronimo, P. 1st, O. Pl., iii, 69

It is most commonly used in such phrases as "Heaven forefend," "God, or some deity, forefend ;" but in Lear, v, 1, forefended is put for prohibited. +FOREFRONT. The preface?

Yet it shall please him that your ladiships names are honoured in the forefront of his writings. Cornwallyes, Essayes, 1632, ded. FOREHAND is here used for previous.

If I have known her,

You'll say she did embrace me as a husband,
And so extenuate the forehand sin. Much Ado, iv, 1.

FOREHAND SHAFT. An arrow particularly formed for shooting straight forward; concerning which Ascham says, that it should be big-breasted. His account is, however, rather ob

scure :

Agayne the bygg-brested shafte is fytte for hym which
shoteth right afore him, or els the brest, being weke,
should never wythstande that strong piththy kinde of
shootynge; thus the underhande must have a small
breste, to go cleane awaye out of the bowe, the fore-
hande must have a bigge breste, to bere the great
myghte of the bowe.
Toxophilus, Q3.
He would have clapp'd i' the clout at twelve score;
and carry'd you a forehand shaft, a fourteen, and
fourteen and a half, that it would have done a man's
heart good to see.
2 Hen. IV, iii, 2.

+FOREHEAD. Presumption.

They knew he was dead; and therefore one had the forhead to affirm, that himself made verses this last summer, which our author wrote (and whereof we had coppies) ten years since. Cartwr. Poems, 1651, pref. FOREHEAD, HIGH. A high forehead was formerly accounted a great beauty, and a low one a proportionable deformity; so completely has taste changed in this respect.

Her eyes are grey as glass, and so are mine;
Aye, but her forehead's low, and mine's as high.

Ant. and Cl, iii, 3.—783, b.

(Said ironically, for much lower.)
The dialogue, perhaps, would be im-
proved a little in spirit, if we might
read it thus:

Mess. Brown, madam. Cleop. And her forehead?
Mess. As low as she could wish it.

A low forehead is humorously men-
tioned as the most striking deformity
of apes:

We shall lose our time,
And all be turn'd to barnacles, or apes,
With foreheads villainous low.
Temp., iv, 1.
+FOREHEAD-CLOTH. A bandage used
by ladies to prevent wrinkles.
E'en like the forehead-cloth that in the night,
Or when they sorrow, ladies used to wear.

Marlow and Chapm., Musaus in fin.
First he brings always with him a sweet savour
To win the courtier's love, and courtier's favour;
Then she puts on a fore-head-cloath to please
The city and the godly folk, she says;

And so with ease, and without cost or pother,
They get a world of friends one way or other.

Buckingham's Poems, 1705, p. 84.

FOREHEND, v. To seize beforehand, or before escape could be made. Doubleth her haste for feare to bee forehent. Spens. F. Q., III, iv, 49. The original editions had for-hent, but probably with the same meaning, or as intensive of hent. +FORELAID. Waylaid.

traitors indeed.

For he, being many times forelaid by the trains of Holland's Ammianus Marcellinus, 1609. Two Gent., iv, 3. FOREMAN, DR. A pretended conjuror, who made his dupes believe that he dealt with spirits, to recover lost spoons, &c.; yet of such fame in his day, that it is said of a woman, much in fashion for selling cosmetics, that all women of spirit and fashion flocked to her,

For this is handsomeness, this that draws us
Body and bones; Oh, what a mounted forehead,
What eyes and lips, what every thing about her.
B. and Fl. Mons. Thomas, i, 1.
Her yvorie forhead, full of bounty brave,
Like a broad table did itselfe dispred,
For love his lofty triumphs to engrave,
And write the battles of his great godhead.

Spens. F. Q., II, iii, 24. This is part of the description of a perfect ideal beauty;

Her forehead smooth, full, polish'd, bright, and high,
Bears in itself a graceful majesty.
Witts Recreations, sign. V 2, b.
Thus also sir Philip Sidney describes
the beautiful Parthenia:

For her great gray eye, which might seeme full of her own beautie; a large and exceedingly faire forehead, with all the rest of her face and bodie, cast in the mould of noblenesse, was yet so attired, &c.

Book I, p. 59.

A lady, jocularly setting forth her own beauty, enumerates,

too. Mr. Gifford says, he was a poor stupid wretch; but it is plain that he was taken for a conjuror, and he was so, even by the famous astrologer Lilly. All the set were probably less fools than knaves. See Mr. G.'s note on the passage from the Silent Woman. [Foreman's Diary, published by Mr. Halliwell, will give the best notion of his history and character.] FORENENST. Opposite to, over against; fore anenst.

The land forenenst the Greekish shore he held
From Sangar's mouth, to crook'd Meander's fall.
Fairf. Tasso, ix, 4.

+FORENT. The front.

A gowne of taffita velvet, lyned with wright black satyn; the forent, the cap, and the hynder parte, with black sarcenet. Stafford MSS., 13 Hen. VIII. +FORE-READ. To predestine.

Had fate fore-read me in a crowd to die,
To be made adder-deaf with pippin-cry.

Fitzgeoffrey. +FORE-RIDDEN. Worn out with riding, used here in a coarse sense. Young bold-fac't queanes, and old fore-ridden jades. Cranley's Amanda, p. 23. Straight forward;

+FORE-RIGHT.

right before.

Though he foreright

Both by their houses and their persons pass'd.

Chapm. Odyss, vii.

Fil. Hey boy! how sits the wind? Gios. Fore-right, and a brisk gale.

The Slighted Maid, p. 3.

To FORESAY. To foretell, or decree.

Let ordinance

Come as the gods foresay it; howsoe'er

My brother has done well.

In the same parliament sir William Creichton was also forfalted for diverse causes. . . . This forfalture was concluded, &c. Holinshed, 1577. FORFEITS IN A BARBER'S SHOP. It has been observed, in the word BARBER, that those shops were places of great resort, for passing away time in an idle manner. By way of enforcing some kind of regularity, and perhaps at least as much to promote drinking, certain laws were usually hung up, the transgression of which was to be punished by specific forfeitures. It is not to be wondered, that laws of that nature were as often laughed at as obeyed.

Laws for all faults,

But laws so countenanc'd, that the strong statutes
Stand like the forfeits in a barber's shop,
As much in mock as mark.
Meas. for M., ii, 2.

Kenrick, with some triumph over Dr. Johnson for being deficient in so important a point of knowledge, produced the following, as a specimen of such rules, professing to have copied them near Northallerton, in Yorkshire:

Rules for seemly Behaviour.

First come, first serve-then come not late; And when arrived keep your state;

Cymb., iv, 2.

For he who from these rules shall swerve, Must pay the forfeits,—so observe.

To FORESLACK. To relax, or render

slack; to neglect.

Through other great adventures hetherto
Had it forslackt.
Spens. F. Q., V, xii, 3.
So also in the View of Ireland:

It is a great pittie that so good an opportunity was
omitted, and so happie an occasion fore-slacked.
Todd, vol. viii, p. 305.
To FORESLOW. To delay, to loiter.
For yet is hope of life and victory;
Foreslow no longer, make we hence amain.
3 Hen. VI, ii, 3.
But by no means my way I would forslow,
For ought that ever she could do or say.
Spens. F. Q., IV, x, 15.
Forslow no time, sweet Lancaster, let's march.
Edw. II, O. Pl., ii, 358.
See also Harringt. Ariosto, xli, 47;
Drayt. Polyolb., xii, p. 895.
+FORETOP. A tuft of hair on the
forehead.

"A most courteous creature," answered Mockso, "so, stroke up your fore-toppe in any case; pish, your band hangeth right enough." The Man in the Moone, 1609. +FORE WASTED. Entirely wasted. Then set aside these vaine forewasted words.

Gascoigne's Workes, 1587. +FOREWATCHED. Weary with waking.

Who enters here with boots and spurs,
Must keep his nook; for if he stirs,
And gives with armed heel a kick,
A pint he pays for ev'ry prick.

Who rudely takes another's turn,
A forfeit mug may manners learn.
3.

Who reverentless shall swear or curse,
Must lug seven farthings from his purse.
4.
Who checks the barber in his tale,
Must pay for each a pot of ale.
5.
Who will or can not miss his hat
While trimming, pays a pint for that.
6.

And he who can or will not pay,
Shall hence be sent half trimm'd away,
For will he, nill he, if in fault
He forfeit must in meal or malt.
But mark, who is alreads in drink,
The cannikin must never clink.

That they were something of this kind is most probable, though the above lines wear some appearance of fabrication; particularly in the men

And Guthlake, that was king of Denmarke then,
Provided with a navie mee forlead.
Mirour for Magistrates, 1587.

tion of seven farthings, evidently put
as equivalent to a pint of ale, but in
reality the price of a pint of porter in To FORLEND. To give up.
London, when Dr. Kenrick wrote,
and not at all likely to have been the
price of a pint of ale, many years
back. The language, too, has not
provinciality enough for the place
assigned. Objections might be made
also to several of the expressions, if
the thing deserved more criticism.
FORGETIVE; from to forge, in the
sense of to make. Inventive, full of
imagination.

As if that life to losse they had forlent,
And cared not to spare that should be shortly spent.
Spens. F. Q., IV, iii, 6.
But Timias, the prince's gentle squire,
That ladie's love unto his lord forlent,
And with proud envy, and indignant yre,
After that wicked foster fiercely went.

Makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble,
fiery, and delectable shapes.
2 Hen. IV, iv, 3.
FORK. A fork was a new article of
luxury in Ben Jonson's time, and the
use of it was introduced from Italy.

Have I deserv❜d this from you two? for all
My pains at court to get you each a patent?
Gilt. For what?

Meerc. Upon my project o' the forks.

Sle. Forks? what be they?

Meerc. The laudable use of forks

Brought into custom here, as they are in Italy,

To th' sparing o' napkins. B. Jon. Devil's an Ass, v, 4.

Hence travellers are often remarked

for their use of them:

And twifold doth express th' enamour'd courtier,
As much as the fork-carving traveller.

B. and Fl. Qu. of Cor., iv, 1.
Then you must learn the use

And handling of your silver fork at meals,
The metal of your glass; (these are main matters
With your Italian.)
B. Jons. Fox, iv, 1.

This grand improvement is announced
with prodigious form by the memo-
rable traveller, Coryat:

Here I will mention a thing that might have been spoken of before in discourse of the first Italian towns. I observed a custom in all those Italian cities and townes through the which I passed, that is

not used in any other country that I saw in my travels, neither do I thinke that any other nation of Christendome doth use it, but only Italy. The Italian, and also most strangers that are commorant in Italy, doe always at their meals use a little forke when they eat their meate.

He then details the manner of using it, the materials of which it was composed, the extraordinary delicacy of the Italians about touching the meat with their fingers; and relates that a friend of his called him "a table furcifer, only for using a forke at feeding, but for no other cause." Coryat's Crudities, vol. i, p. 106, repr. of 1775.

FORKER.

Why? my lord, 'tis nothing to weare a forker. Marston, The Fawne, ii, 1. FORLEAD. Mislead?

Ibid., III, iv, 47. Church conjectures that it means, in the latter of these citations, mistook; but it is plain that the sense is the same as in the other, if we compare it with III, i, 18. Arthur and Guyon went after the lady, "in hopes to win thereby most goodly meade, the fairest dame alive;" but Timias, giving up that prospect to his lord, went after "that foule foster."

FORLORN, 8. A forsaken, destitute
person; from for, intensive, and lorn.
Mr. Todd has found it also in the
Tatler, otherwise it might have been
referred to man, in the preceding
line.

That Henry, sole possessor of my love,
Is, of a king, become a banish'd man,
And forc'd to live in Scotland a forlorn.

3 Hen. VI, ii, 3.

As a participial adjective, deprived:
And when as night hath us of light forlorn.

Sp. Sonnet, 86.

Shakespeare has ludicrously used it to signify thin, diminutive;

He was so forlorn, that his dimensions were, to any thick sight, invisible; he was the very genius of 2 Hen IV, iii, 2.

famine.

†FORLORN-HOPE.

A person who
lost at a gaming-table. Dekker's
Lanthorne and Candle-light, 1620.
FORLORE. The same as forlorn.
And mortal life 'gan loath, as thing forlore.
Spens. F. Q., I, x, 21.
Also as a verb, forsook:

Her feeble hand the bridle reins forlore.
Fairf. Tasso, vii, 1.

+FORMA-PAPER. A corruption of in
forma pauperis, sometimes intro-
duced comically in old plays.
FORMAL.

Sober; having the regular form and use of the senses; opposed

to mad.

Be patient; for I will not let him stir

Till I have us'd th' approved means I have,
With wholesome syrups, drugs, and holy pray'rs,
To make of him a formal man again. Com. of E., v, 1.
She had just before said, more ex-
pressly, that she would keep him
'till she had brought him to his
wits again."

Thou should'st come like a fury crown'd with snakes,
Not like a formal man.
Ant. and Cl., ii, 5.

Thus, the formal vice, iniquity,' means the regular, customary vice. Todd, 7. See INIQUITY. FORMALLY. In the form of another, in a certain form.

The very devil assum'd thee formally,

That face, that voice, that gesture, that attire.
A Mad World, O. Pl., v, 376.
A subtile net, which only for that same
The skilfull Palmer formally did frame.

Spens. F. Q., II, xii, 81. Formerly is also read in that place. FORPINED. Pined, or wasted away.

He was so wasted and forpined away,
That all his substance was consum'd to nought.
Spens. F. Q., III, x, 57.
A plundering incursion on

FORRAY.

a neighbouring enemy.

A band of Britons ryding on forray,
Few days before, had gotten a great pray
Of Saxon goods.
Spens. F. Q., III, iii, 58.
This species of warfare has been
lately much illustrated by the writings
of sir Walter Scott. William of De-
loraine, a stout moss-trooper, says to
a monk,

Penance, father, will I none;
Prayer know I hardly one;

For mass or prayer can I rarely tarry,
Save to patter an Ave Mary,
When I ride on a border foray.

To FORRAY.

Lay of Last Minstr., II, St. 6. To ride on such an in

cursion, to ravage.

For, that they forrayd all the countries nigh, And spoil'd the fields, the duke knew well before. Fairf. Tasso, lx, 42. †To FORSAKE. To abandon; to decline. S. Peter, with the rest of the company, hearing the mad disposition of the fellowe, departed, leavyng behinde him myselfe, Velvet Breeches, and this bricklayer who forsooke to goe into Heaven because his wife was there.

Greene's Newes both from Heaven and Hell, 1593. +FORSET. A casket.

Capsella. Layette, boite. A forset, casket, litle box, chest, or coffer. Nomenclator.

To FORSHAPE. To render misshapen.

Out of a man into a stone Forshape.

Gower, de Conf.

Thy life forspoke by love.

Arraignm. of Paris, 1580, quoted by Steevens. Also to bewitch, or destroy by speaking:

Their hellish power, to kill the ploughman's seed,
Or to forspeake whole flocks as they did feed.
Drayt. Her. Epist., p. 301.
Urging

That my bad tongue, by their bad usage made so,
Forespeakes their cattle, doth bewitch their corn,
Themselves, their servants, and their babes at nurse.
Witch of Edmonton.

They are in despaire, surely forespoken, or bewitched. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 203. Worn away.

FORSPENT.

With hollow eyes, To FORTEACH. tradict.

and rawbone cheekes forspent.

Spens. F. Q., 1V, v, 34.

To unteach, to con

And underneath his filthy feet did tread
The sacred thinges, and holy heastes fortaught.
Spens. F. Q., I, vii, 15.
To FORTHINK. To repent.

Therfore of it be not to bolde,
Lest thou forthink it when thou art olde.

So used by Spenser also:

Interlude of Youth.

And makes exceeding mone, when he does thinke
That all this land unto his foe shall fall,
For which he long in vaine did sweat and swinke,
That now the same he greatly doth forthinke.
F. Q., VI, iv, 32.
+FORTH-RIGHT, adv. At once.
S. Away with him.

D. If you doe find that I have tolde you any lie, kill
me forth-right.
Terence in English, 1614.

FORTH-RIGHT, s. A straight or direct path; from right forth, straight on.

Here's a maze trod, indeed,
Through forth-rights and meanders. Temp., iii, 3.
If you give way,

hindmost.

Or hedge aside from the direct forth-right, Like to an enter'd tide they all rush by, And leave you Tro. and Cr., iii, 3. "Master Forthright, the tilter," is, therefore, the same as Master Straightforward. Meas. for M., iv, 3. FORTHY. Therefore, on that account. A Chaucerian word.

Forthy appease your grief and heavy plight,
And tell the cause of your conceived payne.
Spens. F. Q., II, i, 14.
For the looseness of thy youth art sorry,
And vow'st forthy a solemn pilgrimage.

Drayt. Ecl., 6, p. 1412. So it was in the old editions; in the octavo " therefore" is substituted as equivalent. It is plain by Mr. Capell's qu.? in his School of Shakspeare, p. 102, that he did not understand the word. In p. 211 he also prints it as two words. +FORTINABLE. Fortunate; tious.

propi

Rychard Curdelyon they callyd hym in Fraunce, Whych had over enymyes most fortynable chaunce. Bale's Kynge Johan, p. 1. FORTITUDES and FORTUNATES. Astrological terms for favorable pla

nets.

Let the twelve houses of the horoscope
Be lodg'd with fortitudes and fortunates,
To make you blest in your designs, Pandolfo.

Albumazar, O. Pl., vii, 147.

The FORTUNE, a playhouse in Goldenlane, near Whitecross-street, where is still a small street called Playhouse-yard. Alleyn the player, the founder of Dulwich College, bought the lease, and rebuilt the playhouse in 1599. By some extracts from his accounts, preserved by Dr. Birch, it appears that it cost him, on the whole, £880.

I took him once in the two-penny gallery at the
Fortune.
Roaring Girl, O. Pl., vi, 113.
Then I will confound her with compliments drawn
from the plays I see at the Fortune and Red Bull.
Albumazar, O. Pl., vii, 155.

The Fortune was destroyed by fire
about the time when the same fate
befell the Globe on the Bank-side.
Speaking of Vulcan's rage against the
former, Ben Jonson says,

Fortune, for being a whore,
'Scap'd not his justice any jot the more,
He burnt that idol of the revels too.

Execrat. upon Vulcan, vol. vi, p. 410. There is a view of its front towards Golden-lane, with a plan of the adjacent streets, in Londina Illustrata. It has no appearance of a theatre, except the king's arms against the wall.

To FORTUNE, v. n. To happen.

That you will wonder what hath fortuned. Two Gent., V, How fortuneth this foule uncomely plight? Spens. F. Q., VI, vii, 14. It fortuned out of the thickest wood, A ramping lyon rushed suddenly. Ibid., I, iii, 5. Not now in use, though found by Todd in Pope and Evelyn. FORTUNE, n. s.

rence.

A hap, an occur

Albeit they affirmed that he might be well assured that in all accidents and fortunes that citie should not faile to minister to him. Fenton's Guicciardin, p. 21.

FORTUNE MY FOE. The beginning

Take heed, my brother, of a stranger fortune Than e'er you felt yet; fortune my foe's a friend to it. B. & Fl. Custom of Country, i, 1. Mentioned also in the Knight of the Burning Pestle, and several other places specified in the notes to the above passages.

Mr. Malone has recovered the first stanza of it, which may lead to the rest; it is this:

Fortune my foe, why dost thou frown on me? And will my fortune never better be? Wilt thou, I say, for ever breed my pain? And wilt thou not restore my joys again? It does not appear in any of the common collections. The first line is quoted in Fragmenta Regalia, by sir Rob. Naunton. FORTY-PENCE. The sum commonly offered for a small wager; for the same reason that several law fees were fixed at that sum, viz., 38. 4d.; be cause, when money was reckoned by pounds, marks, and nobles, fortypence was just the half noble, or the sixth of a pound.

How tastes it? is it bitter?-forty pence, no.
*Hen. VIII, ii, 3.

That is, "I will lay forty pence it
does not."

Wagers laying, &c.-forty pence gaged against a match of wrestling. Greene's Groundw. of Coneycatch.

I dare wage with any man forty-pence. The longer thou livest, &c. See TEN GROATS, which was another current term for the same sum. +FORWARD. To go forward, to suc

And kynge Herry, beynge in the forwarde durynge the bataylle, was not hurt; but he was broughte ageyne to the Toure of Londone, ther to be kept. Warkworth's Chronicle. FORWASTED. Much wasted, or wasted away. For, intensive.

"Till that infernal feend with foul uprore
Forwasted all their land, and them expeld.
Spens. F. Q., I, i, 5.

intensive.

of an old ballad, probably a great FORWEARIED. Much wearied. For, favorite in its time, for it is very often mentioned. Yet it does not appear that any complete copy of it is extant.

O most excellent diapason! good, good; it plays fortune my foe as distinctly as may be. Lingua, O. Pl., v, 188.

Whose labour'd spirits, Forweary'd in this action of swift speed, Crave harbourage within your city walls. K. John, ii, 1. Forwearied with my sportes, I did alight From loftie steed, and down to sleepe me layd. Spens. F. Q., I, ix, 13.

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