Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—F

Fetches

Excuses, tricks, artifices. (Saxon.)

Deny to speak with me? They are sick? they are weary?
They have travelled all the night? Mere fetches.

Shakespeare: King Lear, ii:4.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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