V. THE LEGEND OF SIR AR'TEGAL, justice' (1596).
VI. THE LEGEND OF SIR CALIDORE, courtesy (1596).
Sometimes bk. vii., called. Mutability, is added; but only fragments of this book exist.
Fafnis, the dragon with which Sigurd fights.—Sigurd the Horny (a German romance based on a Norse legend).
Fag, the lying servant of Captain Absolute. He "wears his master's wit, as he does his lace, at second hand."—Sheridan, The Rivals (1775).
Faggot (Nicholas), clerk to Matthew Foxley, the magistrate who examined Darsie Latimer (i. e. Sir Arthur Darsie Redgauntlet) after he had been attacked by rioters.—Sir W. Scott, Redgauntlet (time, George III.).
Faggots and Faggots (II y a fagots et fagots), all things of the same sort are not equal in quality. In Molière's Le Médecin Malgré Lui, Sganarelle wants to show that his faggots are better than those of other persons, and cries out "Ay! but those faggots are not equal to mine."
II est vrai, messieurs, que je suis le premier homme du monde pour faire des fagots ...
Je n'y épargne aucune chose, et les fais d'une facon qu'il n'y a rien a dire ... Il y a fagots, et fagots.—Act i. 6 (1666).