Chapter Fiona to Fitz-Boodle of F by Brewer's Readers Handbook

which she sails is attacked by strangers, and Hinda, blindfolded, is taken to the Ghebers’ glen. Here she discovers that her lover is Hafed, and she tells him that Al Hassan is about to enter the glen with a large army, utterly to extirpate the whole race of fire-worshippers. Hafed sends Hinda away, intending that she should be restored to her father, and then prepares for the attack. Thousands of the Moslems fall, all the Ghebers are slain, and Hafed, mounting the fire-pile, dies. Hinda (by a kind of presentiment) feels assured of his death, and, falling in a swoon into the water, is drowned.—T. Moore: Lalla Rookh (1817).

Firouz Schah, son and heir of the king of Persia. One New Year’s Day an Indian brought to the king an enchanted horse, which would convey the rider almost instantaneously anywhere he might wish to go to; and asked, as the price thereof, the king’s daughter for his wife. Prince Firouz, mounting the horse to try it, was carried to Bengal, and there fell in love with the princess, who accompanied him back to Persia on the horse. When the king saw his son arrive safe and sound, he dismissed the Indian discourteously; but the Indian caught up the princess, and, mounting the horse, conveyed her to Cashmere. She was rescued by the sultan of Cashmere, who cut off the Indian’s head, and proposed marriage himself to the princess. To avoid this alliance, the princess pretended to be mad. The sultan sent for his physicians, but they could suggest no cure. At length came one who promised to cure the lady; it was prince Firouz in disguise. He told the sultan that the princess had contracted enchantment from the horse, and must be set on it to disenchant her. Accordingly, she was set on the horse, and while Firouz caused a thick cloud of smoke to arise, he mounted with the lady through the air, saying as he did so, “Sultan of Cashmere, when you would espouse a princess who craves your protection, first learn to obtain her consent.”—Arabian Nights (“The Enchanted Horse”).

First Gentleman of Europe, George IV. (1762, 1820–1830). (See Fum.)

Louis d’Artois of France was so called also.

The “First Gentleman of Europe” had not yet quite lost his once elegant figure.—E. Yates: Celebrities, xvii.

First Grenadier of France. Latour d’Auverge was so called by Napoleon (1743–1800).

First Love, a comedy by Richard Cumberland (1796). Frederick Mowbray’s first love, being dowerless, marries the wealthy lord Ruby, who soon dies, leaving all his fortune to his widow. In the mean time, Frederick goes abroad, and at Padua falls in with Sabina Rosny, who nurses him through a severe sickness, for which he thinks he is bound in honour to marry her. She comes with him to England, and is placed under the charge of lady Ruby. Sabina tells lady Ruby she cannot marry Frederick, because she is married already to lord Sensitive, and even if it were not so, she could not marry him, for all his affections are with lady Ruby; this she discovered in the delirium of the young man, when his whole talk was about her ladyship. In the end, lord Sensitive avows himself the husband of Sabina, and Frederick marries his first love.

Fish (One-eyed), in the mere of Snowdonia or the Snowdon group.

Snowdon … his proper mere did not …
That pool in which … the one-eyed fish are found.
   —Drayton: Polyolbion, ix. (1612).

He eats no fish, that is, “he is no papist,” “he is an honest man, or one to be trusted.” In the reign of queen Elizabeth papists were, generally speaking, the enemies of the Government, and hence one who did not eat fish, like a papist on fast days, was considered a protestant, and friend to the Government.

I do profess … to serve him truly that will put me in trust … and to eat no fish.—Shakespeare: King Lear, act i. sc. 4 (1605).

Fish and the Ring.