“On the hill the golden-rod And the aster in the wood, And the yellow sunflower by the brook, In autumn beauty stood, Till fell the frost from the clear, cold heaven As falls the plague on men And the brightness of their smile was gone From upland, glade and glen.” _The Death of the Flowers_ (1821-1834). =Flowerdale= (_Sir John_), father of Clarissa, and the neighbor of Colonel Oldboy.—Bickerstaff, _Lionel and Clarissa_. =Floyd= (_Ireson_). “Old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart Tarred and feathered, and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead.” The punishment was inflicted because he had refused succor to a leaking ship, lost in consequence of his inhumanity.—J.G. Whittier, _Skipper Ireson’s Ride_ (1877). _Floyds_ (_The_). Artist and wife summering in Broughton, Mass. He is self-indulgent and careless of her; she proud, passionate and morbid. Convinced that her husband is weary of her, and beset by the importunities of another man, she drowns herself.—Bliss Perry, _The Broughton House_ (1890). =Fluel´len=, a Welsh captain and great pedant, who, amongst other learned quiddities, drew this parallel between Henry V. and Alexander the Great: One was born in Monmouth and the other in Macedon, both which places begin with M, and in both a river flowed.—Shakespeare, _Henry V._ act iv. sc. 7 (1599). =Flur=, the bride of Cassivelaun, “for whose love the Roman Cæsar first invaded Britain.”—Tennyson, _Idylls of the King_ (“Enid”). =Flute= (_The Magic_), a flute which has the powers of inspiring love. When given by the powers of darkness, the love it inspires is sensual love; but when bestowed by the powers of light, it becomes subservient to the very holiest ends. In the opera called _Die Zauberflöte_, Tami´no and Pami´na are guided by it through all worldly dangers to the knowledge of divine truth (or the mysteries of Isis.)—Mozart, _Die Zauberflöte_ (1791). =Flutter=, a gossip, fond of telling a good story, but, unhappily, unable to do so without a blunder. “A good-natured, insignificant creature, admitted everywhere, but cared for nowhere” (act i. 3).—Mrs. Cowley, _The Belle’s Stratagem_ (1780). =Fly.= Dainty butterfly of fashion who falls heir to the heroine’s rejected lover in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s novel, _The Silent Partner_. =Fly-gods=, Beelzebub, a god of the Philistines, supposed to ward off flies. Achor was worshipped by the Cyrēneads for a similar object. Zeus Apomy´ios was the fly-god of the Greeks. On the east side of your shop, aloft, Write Mathlai, Tarmael, and Baraborat; Upon the north part, Rael, Velel, Thiel. They are the names of those mercurial sprites That do fright flies from boxes. B. Jonson, _The Alchemist_, i. (1610).