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 dialect of France,’
iii. 343, n. 3.

FRENCH.  ‘I think my French is as good as his English,’ ii. 404.

FRENCHMAN.  ’A Frenchman must be always talking, whether he knows anything of the matter or not,’ iv. 15.

FRIEND.  ’A friend with whom they might compare minds, and cherish private virtues,’ iii. 387.

FRIENDSHIP.  ’A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair,’ i. 300.

FRIENDSHIPS.  ’Most friendships are formed by caprice or by chance, mere confederacies in vice or leagues in folly,’ iv. 280.

FRISK.  ‘I’ll have a frisk with you,’ i. 250.

FROTH.  ‘Longing to taste the froth from every stroke of the oar,’ v. 440, n. 2.

FROWN.  ’On which side soever I turn, mortality presents its formidable frown,’ iv. 366.

FRUGAL.  ‘He was frugal by inclination, but liberal by principle,’ iv. 62, n. 1.

FULL MEAL.  ‘Every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal,’ ii. 363.