If ye should lead her into a fool’s paradise, it were a gross ... behavior.—Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, act ii. sc. 4 (1597).
Foot-breadth, the sword of Thoralf Skolinson “the Strong” of Norway.
Quern-biter of Hakon the Good,
Wherewith at a stroke he hewed
The millstone thro’ and thro’;
And foot-breadth of Thoralf “the Strong!”
Were not so broad, nor yet so long.
Nor was their edge so true.
Longfellow.
Fopling Flutter (Sir), “the man of mode,” and chief character of a comedy by Sir George Etherege, entitled The Man of Mode or Sir Fopling Flutter (1676).