fleeting inconstant:
“false, fleeting perjured Clarence,”
RICHARD III., i. 4. 55
(
“changing sides,”
JOHNSON)
;
“the fleeting moon,”
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, v. 2.
239.
(The word fleeting applied to a person, as
in the first of the above passages, is of very rare occurrence. I therefore notice that Sir
John Harington, in his Orlando Furioso, has
“But Griffin [though he came not for this end,
For praise and bravery at tilt to run,
But came to find his fleeting female friend],”
B. xvii. st. 18. )
“But Griffin [though he came not for this end,
For praise and bravery at tilt to run,
But came to find his fleeting female friend],”
B. xvii. st. 18. )
