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 worth looking on, it was a passing goodlie sight to behold them.  Le diable vous en feroit bien mal trouver. The diuel were in't if you should not be well withall; or, you must needs be well withall I trow.  Mon autre mari ne me faisoit pas ainsi. My other husband vsed me otherwise.  Se peut il faire? ''is it possible? can it be?''  Avoir fort à faire à. To be extreamely pestered with, or busied about.  Bailler fort à faire à. To imploy much, taske hard, lay many businesses vpon, put vnto toyle enough.  Estre à tout faire. To be for all purposes, be fit for all vses, be readie for any thing he is put vnto.  Fais ce que tu dois, advienne ce que pourra: Pro. Doe thou thy dutie happen what hap may.  Il fait assez qui fait faire: Pro. He doeth hurt, or good enough, that makes it to be done.  Mal fait qui ne parfait: Pro. Ill does he that all does not; discontinuance of worke dishonours the worke-*man.  Tel fait la faulte qu'un autre boit: Prov. One doth the scathe, and another hath the scorne.  Tel fait le mieux qu'il peut qui ne fait chose qui vaille: Prov. Some doe their best, and yet doe nothing well; or, some though they doe their best doe nothing well.  Assez dort qui rien ne fait: Prov. As good one sleepe as be idle and doe nothing.  Bien dire fait rire, bien faire fait taire: Pro. Good words breed laughter, good deeds admiration.  De ce que tu pourras faire iamais n'attens autruy: Pro. For that which thou canst doe thy selfe rely not on another.  Entre dire & faire il y a grand adire: Prov. Betweene saying and doing there is great difference.  Il faut acheter Maison faicte, & femme à faire: Pro. Looke Femme. Il ne sçait rien qui ne veut bien faire: Pro. He nothing knowes that will not do his dutie; or, vaine is the skill thats without vertue.  La fin fait tout: Prov. The end proues all; or, is all in all.  Qui bien fera bien trouvera: Prov. Well thriues he that does well; or he that does well cheeues well.

Fais: m. A bundle, fardle, packe, bunch of; also, any heauie load, charge, burthen.

Faisable: com. Feasible, doeable, effectable, makeable, which may be performed, acted, or done.

Faisan: m. A Phesant.  Faisan bruyant. The great blacke Moore-cocke; or, as Coq de bois. Faisances. as Corvées. ¶Norm. Faisandé: m. ée: f. Mortified, made tender, and (thereby) as daintie as a Phesant.

Faisander. To mortifie fowle, &c; to make it tender, by hanging it vp, or (otherwise) keeping it some while after it is killed.

Faisanne: f. A Phesant-henne.

Faisanneau: m. A Phesant-poot, a yong Phesant.

Faisannier: m. A keeper, or breeder of Phesants.

Faisant. as Faisan. Faisant. Acting, doing, exploiting, effecting; making, causing, forging, framing, &c.

Faisceau: m. A little bundle, or fardle; a packet; a small bunch, or sheaue; a handfull of.

Faiseur: m. A doer, actor, performer; maker, causer, forger, framer, worker, composer. Faiseur d'oeuvre blanche. as Taillandier. Grands vanteurs petis faiseurs: Prov. Great promisers weake performers.

Faisible: com. Feasible, makeable, effectable, doeable.

Faisseau. as Faisceau. Faisselle: f. A Chesford, or Cheesefat, of wicker; or of earth, pierced in the bottome to let out the whay when the cheese receiues it forme.

Faisser. as Enfaisser. Faissine: f. A bundle, or faggot.

Faist. as Faiste. Faiste: m. The top, height, ridge, roofe of; also, the better end of a peece of cloth.  Par le fin faiste. Strictly, straitly, vnto the vtmost, to a haire.

Faistiere. A ridge-tyle, Creast-tile, Roofe-tile.

Fait. See Faict. Faitard: m. de: f. Sluggish, drowsie, lazie, slothfull, idle, negligent; also, cowardlie, faint-hearted; slow, dull, by lazinesse.

Faitardement. Slothfully, drowsily, lazily, sluggishly; also, faint-heartedly.

Faitardise: f. Sloth, sluggishnesse, idlenesse, drowsinesse, lazinesse, negligence; also, dulnes, or faint-heartednesse (bred thereby.)

Faitifs. as Faictis. Faitis. The same.

Faitissé. as Faictis. Faitneantise: f. Idlenesse, lazinesse; faint-heartednesse, heartlesnesse.

Faix: m. A packe, load, or burden; a weightie charge.  Pierres de faix. Great, or weightie stones.  Plier sur le faix. To shrinke vnder his burden; to find or acknowledge, the charge layed on him too heauie for him.  Cela a prins son faix. That thing is setled, sunke in as farre, pressed downe as much, as it will be.  À haute montée le faix encombre: Prov. To a high climber a burden is combersome.

Faizander. To dresse a Pullet, or Capon like a Phesant; or, as Faisander. Fal: m. A player, or playing ring, in a Bitt.

Falaize: f. A banke, downe, or hill by the sea side; also, fine sand gotten by a water side.

Faldes: f. A paire of Bases to ride with.

Fallace: f. A fallacie; guile, deceit, wile, tromperie, a craftie tricke, cheating sleight, cousening deuice.

Fallacieux: m. euse: f. Full of fallacies; false, craftie, wylie, deceitfull, cousening, cheating, beguiling; counterfeiting, vncertaine.

Falleré: m. ée: f. Barded, trapped; decked, tricked vp.

Fallevuches: f. The sparkles, or fierie and small flakes, that arise from furnaces wherein mettals are melted.

Falloir. A Verbe Impersonall; or vsed onely in the third Person. Il fault, or, il faut. It ought, it must, it shall, it needs, it behoues, it is expedient. C'est un faire le fault. Tis a matter of necessitie; it must needs be so; there is no remedie; there is no gain-*saying of it, no striuing against it. Il s'en fault. It misses, wants, lacks. Il ne s'en fallut gueres que luy. He fayled but little of; he had well-nigh; he was verie neere, verie like to haue, &c. Il te fault trop de choses. Thou art too nice, daintie, curious; nothing pleases thee; or, enough contents thee not. Tant s'en faut que luy. So farre is it from him, so