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Fraduʹbio [Brother Doubt]

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says Spenser, wooed and won Duessa (False-faith); but one day, while she was bathing, discovered her to be a “filthy old hag,” and resolved to leave her. False-faith instantly metamorphosed him into a tree, and he will never be relieved till “he can be bathed from the well of living water.” (Faërie Queene, book i. 2.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Fox (To)
Fox-fire
Fox-tail
Fox’s Sleep (A)
Foxed
Foxglove
Foxites
Foxy
Fra Diavolo (Michele Pozza)
Fracassus
Fradubio [Brother Doubt]
Frame of Mind
France
Francesca
Francesca da Rimini
Francis’s Distemper (St.)
Franciscans
Frangipani
Frangipani Pudding
Frank
Frank Pledge