Fide, W[illiam] (M[22],d), so given in the E.E.T.S. text, Fide being Fyde.
Fierce, "a likely man and a fierce" (M[27],d)—"how valiant ... and fierce" (WH[293],d), strong, full of fire and ardour. "Yet have I fierce affections."—Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1608), i. 5. "The ships, though so great, are driven of fierce winds; yet are they turned about with a very small helm."—Bible, Auth. Vers. (1611), James iii. 4.
Firibusque, see Breadibus.
Fist, "a good running fist" (M[30],b), writing: an early example of a common present-day colloquialism.
Flaterabundus, "ye flaterabundus you" (R[188],a), see Clawback.
Flear, Flearing, Fleereth (passim), mock, gibe, leer, smirk; and as verb = to grin contemptuously or scornfully, sneer, smirk.
Flexible, "Mankind is so flexible" (M[33],a), pliant, easily influenced, wavering in disposition.
Flitched, "hath flitched the bishopricks" (R[218],b), so in orignal, but? filched. Mr. Magnus says, "Cut up into strips."
Flittance (R[183],d), "a ghost word for fleetings, i.e. skimmings" (Mr. Magnus quoting Prof. Skeat).
Flix, "die of the flix" (R[271],c), flux, dysentery. Mr. Magnus glosses this "flyxe [flixe in E.E.T.S. text], flick, thief, 62, 1908." The mistake in giving the text spelling in glossary leads one to suspect that all the rest, save the page and line reference, is wrong also. At all events, how could Avarice "die of the thief"? Perhaps, however, the E.E.T.S. editor meant the Great Thief of Thieves—Old Age!! "Diseased with the bluddy flixe."—Udal, Matt. ix.