'You are not ill, madame?' asked that ridiculous fop, Montfèriot, who had been presented to me, and was whispering the most fatuous compliments.

Sir Timothy serenades the newly-mated pair and is threatened by Bellmour, whilst Celinda, who has been watching the house, attacks the fop and his fiddlers.

Darrin's clenched right fist caught the fop on the temple, felling him to the ground.

She saw plainly that he had chosen his sidethe impertinent fop, with his airs and graces!and she was not to be propitiated.

3. 'Comes up a fop (I knew him but by fame), And seized my hand, and call'd me by name

and, lastly, how entirely they have convinced our young fops and young fellows of the value and advantages of Learning!

In wrestling I did much excel And lov'd to douse a boasting fop, Nor cared I how or where we fell Provided I fell on the top.

Wise legislators never yet could draw A fop within the reach of common law; For posture, dress, grimace, and affectation, 10 Though foes to sense, are harmless to the nation.

But two or three men in the crowd leaped between the enemies, forcing the fop back.

The threadbare author hates the gaudy coat; And swears at the gilt coach, but swears afoot: 10 For 'tis observed of every scribbling man, He grows a fop as fast as e'er he can; Prunes up, and asks his oracle, the glass, If pink and purple best become his face.

I do hate a Frenchified fop with all my soul: and I cannot say that I am much pleased with my neighbour Underwood for taking the part of such a rascal.

But t'other day, I heard this rhyming fop Say,Critics were the whips, and he the top;

Do the work that's nearest, Though it's dull at whiles, Helping, when we meet them, Lame dogs over stiles; See in every hedgerow Marks of angels' feet, Epics in each pebble Underneath our feet; Once a year, like schoolboys, Robin-Hooding go, Leaving fops and fogies A thousand feet below.

She donned a red-hued periwig and cockle hat, then strutted back and forth, proud of her fine appearance, as, indeed, she looked a roguish fop of no mean parts.

Would any body ever have believed that such a young creature as this, who had by her advice saved even her over-lively friend from marrying a fop, and a libertine, would herself have gone off with one of the vilest and most notorious of libertines?

You'll sometimes meet a fop, of nicest tread, Whose mantling peruke veils his empty head; At every step he dreads the wall to lose And risks, to save a coach, his red-heeled shoes: Him, like the miller, pass with caution by, Lest from his shoulder clouds of powder fly.

What can we do, when mimicking a fop, Like beating nut-trees, makes a larger crop? Faith,

The thought of violets meant florists' shops, And bows and pins, and perfumed papers fine; And garish lights, and mincing little fops And cabarets and songs, and deadening wine.

You neat little fop, sailing from rose to rose, to-night you'll be neat as a pin can make you!

Fools, which each man meets in his dish each day, Are yet the great regalios of a play; In which to poets you but just appear, To prize that highest, which cost them so dear: Fops in the town more easily will pass; One story makes a statutable ass: But such in plays must be much thicker sown, Like yolks of eggs, a dozen beat to one.

PORTEUS, Beilby, Bishop of Chester (afterwards of London), Boswell, attentive to, iii. 413, 415; Jenyns's, Soame, conversion, i. 316, n. 2; Life of Secker, iv. 29; reverend fops, iv. 76; Sunday knotting, iii. 242, n. 3; mentioned, iii. 124, 279, 280.

The newcomer was that sneering Court fop, the Count von Reuss, Duke Casimir's nephewstill in hiding from the wrath of his uncle.