FORE-SPURRER. A forerunner; a messenger.

A day in April never came so sweet,
To show how costly summer was at hand,
As this fore-spurrer comes before his lord.

Merchant of Venice, ii. 8.
TO FORESTALL. To prevent; to preclude; to
anticipate; to hinder; to deprive.
O, pardon me, my liege! but for my tears,
I had forestall'd this dear and deep rebuke.
Henry 4, P. 2, iv. 4.
And never shall you see that I will beg
A ragged and forestall'd remission. Ibid. v. 2.
And what's in prayer but this twofold force,-
To be forestalled ere we come to fall,

Or pardon'd being down?

Hamlet, iii. 3.

If your mind dislike anything, obey it: I will forestall their repair hither, and say you are not fit.

All the better: may

Forethought by heaven!

King John, iii. 1.

FOREVOUCHED.

Declared; avowed.

Sure, her offence

Must be of such unnatural degree,

That monsters it, or your forevouch'd affection Fall into taint.

King Lear, i. 1.

FOREWARD. The front; the vanguard. My foreward shall be drawn out all in length, Consisting equally of foot and horse.

Richard 3, v. 3.

FORFEIT. One whose life is forfeited; for

feiture; remission of penalty.

Your brother is a forfeit of the law,
And you but waste your words.

Measure for Measure, iii. 2.
Claudio, whom here you have warrant to execute,
is no greater forfeit to the law than Angelo, who
hath sentenced him.
Ibid. iv. 2.

And I have seen thee spur thy Phrygian steed,
Despising many forfeits and subduements.
Troilus and Cressida, iv. 5.

Then say at once what is it thou request'st.-
The forfeit, sovereign, of my servant's life;
Who slew to-day a riotous gentleman,
Lately attendant on the Duke of Norfolk.

Richard 3, ii. 1.

FORFEIT. Forfeited; fracted; broken; liable to punishment; guilty.

Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once;
And He that might the vantage best have took
Found out the remedy.

Measure for Measure, ii. 2.

Why, this bond is forfeit.

Merchant of Venice, iv. 1.

Ibid. v. 2.

in the same kind?

TO FORFEIT.

Double and treble admonition, and still forfeit Measure for Measure, iii. 2.

To sentence; to condemn.

Shall we buy treason? and indent with fears, When they have lost and forfeited themselves?

Henry 4, P. 1, i. 3.

Undone and forfeited to cares for ever!
All's well that ends well, ii. 3.

FORFEITER. One who forfeits his bond.

Lovers,
And men in dangerous bonds, pray not alike:

FORMER.

Foremost; previous; aforesaid.

Julius Cæsar, v. 1.

Coming from Sardis on our former ensign
Two mighty eagles fell.
Out of that I'll work myself a former fortune.

Coriolanus, v. 3. You've seen and prov'd a fairer former fortune Than that which is to approach.

Antony and Cleopatra, i. 2. The former agents, if they did complain, What could the belly answer?

Coriolanus, i. 1.

TO FORSAKE. To refuse; to reject.

Thy frank election make;

Thou hast power to choose, and they none to forsake.
All's well that ends well, ii. 3.

TO FORSLOW. To delay; to stay; to loiter.
Forslow no longer, make we hence amain.
Henry 6, P. 3, ii. 3.

TO FORSPEAK. To forbid.

Thou hast forspoke my being in these wars,
And say'st it is not fit. Antony and Cleopatra, iii. 7.

FORSPENT. Spent; exhausted.

After him came spurring hard
A gentleman, almost forspent with speed.

Henry 4, P. 2, i. 1.

That

I'll tell you as we pass along,
you will wonder what hath fortuned.

Two Gentlemen of Verona, v. 4. Therefore, dear Isis, keep decorum, and fortune him accordingly! Antony and Cleopatra, i. 2.

FORWARD. Prompt; ardent; prepared; ready; eager; earnest.

When a jest is so forward, and a-foot too! I
hate it.
Henry 4, P. 1, ii. 2.
Whoever charges on his forward breast,
I am the caitiff that do hold him to't.
All's well that ends well, iii. 2.
Our expectation that it would be thus
Hath made us forward.
Cymbeline, iii. 5.
And mere instinct of love and loyalty
Makes them thus forward in his banishment.
Henry 6, P. 2, iii. 2.

FORWEARIED.

FRACT.

Overcome with fatigue.

Forwearied in this action of swift speed.

FRACTION.

FRACTION. A broken or imperfect sentence; separation; disunion.

After distasteful looks, and these hard fractions,
With certain half-caps and cold-moving nods
They froze me into silence. Timon of Athens, ii. 2.
All the better; their fraction is more our wish
than their faction. Troilus and Cressida, ii. 3.

FRAME. Scheme; plan; order; contrivance.

Chid I for that at frugal nature's frame?

O, one too much by thee!

Much Ado about Nothing, iv. 1.
A woman, that is like a German clock,
Still a-repairing; ever out of frame.

Love's Labour's lost, iii. 1.
The practice of it lies in John the bastard,
Whose spirits toil in frame of villanies.

Much Ado about Nothing, iv. 1.

TO FRAME. To plan; to prepare; to execute; to apply; to betake.

Comedy of Errors, iv. 1.

"I'll fume with

"Frets call you these ?" quoth she; them :" And, with that word, she struck me on the head. Taming of the Shrew, ii. 1. To FRET. To streak; to variegate; to emboss; to chase.

O, pardon, sir, it doth; and yon gray lines.
That fret the clouds are messengers of day.
Julius Cæsar, ii. 1.
The roof o' the chamber

With golden cherubins is fretted. Cymbeline, ii. 4.

FRIEND. A lover; a paramour; a sweetheart; a mistress.

Lady, will you walk about with your friend?
Much Ado about Nothing, ii. 1.
Or to be naked with her friend in bed,
An hour or more, not meaning any harm.

Othello, iv. 1. Being so far provoked as I was in France, I would abate her nothing; though I profess myself her adorer, not her friend. Cymbeline, i. 4.

The queen

Of audience nor desire shall fail, so she
From Egypt drive her all-disgraced friend,
Or take his life there.

Antony and Cleopatra, iii. 12.
Nor never come in vizard to my friend.
Love's Labour's lost, v. 2.

To FRIEND. To favour; to befriend.

Well, the gods are above; time must friend or end.
Troilus and Cressida, i. 2.

When vice makes mercy, mercy's so extended,
That for the fault's love is the offender friended.
Measure for Measure, iv. 2.
I know that we shall have him well to friend.
Julius Caesar, iii. 1.
What I believe, I'll wail;
What know, believe; and what I can redress,
As I shall find the time to friend, I will.

May do, to express his love and friending to you, God willing, shall not lack. Hamlet, i. 5.

To think o' the teen that I have turn'd you to,
Which is from my remembrance. Tempest, i. 2.
For any thing so overdone is from the purpose
of playing.
Hamlet, iii. 2.
But thus condition'd: thou shalt build from men;
Hate all, curse all.
Timon of Athens, iv. 3.

Whose containing
Is so from sense in hardness, that I can
Make no collection of it.
That, his apparent open guilt omitted,
He liv'd from all attainder of suspect.

Cymbeline, v. 5.

Macbeth, iv. 3.

Antony and Cleopatra, ii. 6.