=Fore´sight= (2 _syl._), a mad superstitious old man, who “consulted the stars, and believed in omens, portents, and predictions.” He referred “man’s goatish disposition to the charge of a star,” and says he himself was “born when the Crab was ascending, so that all his affairs in life have gone backwards.” I know the signs, and the planets, and their houses; can judge of motions, direct and retrograde, of sextiles, quadrates, trines, and oppositions, fiery trigons and aquatic trigons. Know whether life shall be long or short, happy or unhappy; whether diseases are curable or incurable; if journeys shall be prosperous, undertakings successful, or stolen goods recovered.—H. Congreve, _Love for Love_, ii. (1695). =Forester= (_Sir Philip_), a libertine knight. He goes in disguise to Lady Bothwell’s ball on his return from the Continent, but being recognized, decamps. _Lady Jemima Forester_, wife of Sir Philip, who goes with her sister Lady Bothwell to consult “the enchanted mirror,” in which they discover the clandestine marriage and infidelity of Sir Philip.—Sir W. Scott, _Aunt Margaret’s Mirror_ (time, William III). =Forgeries= (_Literary_). BERTRAM (_C. Julius_), professor of English at Copenhagen, professed to have discovered, in 1747, the _De Situ Britanniæ_ of Richardus Corinensis, in the library of that city; and in 1757 he published it with two other treatises, calling the whole _The Three Writers on the Ancient History of the British Nations_ (better known as _Scriptores Tres_). His forgery was exposed by J.E. Mayor, in his preface to _Ricardi de Cirencestria Speculum Historiale_. CHATTERTON (_Thomas_), in 1777, published certain poems, which he affirmed were written in the fifteenth century by Thomas Rowley, a monk. The poets Gray and Mason detected the forgery. His other literary forgeries were: (1) _The Pedigree of Burgum_ (a Bristol pewterer), professed to have been discovered in the muniment-room of St. Mary’s Church, Redcliffe. He accordingly printed a history of the “De Bergham” family, with a poem called _The Romaunt of the Cnyghte_, by John de Bergham (fourteenth century). (2) A forged account of the opening of the old bridge, signed “Dunhelmus Bristoliensis,” and professing to have been copied from an old MS. (3) _An Account of Bristol_, by Turgotus, “translated out of Saxon into English, by T. Rowley.” This forgery was made for the use of Mr. Catcott, who was writing a history of Bristol. IRELAND (_S. W. H._) published, in folio, 1796, _Miscellaneous Papers and Instruments, under the hand and seal of William Shakespeare, including the tragedy of King Lear and a small fragment of Hamlet, from the original_, price £4 4_s_. He actually produced MSS. which he had forged, and which he pretended were original.