Fenton
. One who seeks to mend his fortune by marriage. He is the suitor of Anne Page. Her father objects to him, he says, because
“I am too great of birth;
And that, my state being gallʹd with my expense,
I seek to heal it only by his wealth.”
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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.