For she isfayn of thi felaweshipe, For to be thi make.
Barow and his felaw spak to me in the most plesawnt wyse, and me semyth be hem thei wold fayn plese me.
God amend it; for qwych sad rule and governaunce to be had I wold full fayn a ben with your good [Lordship].
My master Berney cam in and the parson of Oxened with hym and sey us in owre jakkis, and he wexe as pale as any herd and wold right fayn a ben thens.
Yowr tenawntis wold fayn that summe mene of yowris shuld abyde amongis hem, for they ben in gred diswyr what they may do; the langage is so grett on the tother party that it maketh the tenawntis sor afferd that ye shuld not regoyse itt.
For as for Ryschard Calle, he wulle no mor gadyr yt but yf ze comaund hym, and he woold fayn make hys .
My modyr wold fayn have yow at Mawtby; she rode thydyr ought of Norwyche on Saturday last past, to purvey your lodgyng redy ayenst your comyng.
I am fayn to borow the mony to pay it by that Lord I beleve on, for I cowd not gadyr a nobyll of areragys syn I was with yow at London of alle the lyvelod ye have.
The folk was fayn quhen thai that senye saw; Rycht weyll thai knew in gold the rede lioun, 275 Leit wp the port, rasauit him in the toun, And sufferyt thaim, for all that he had brocht.
To London with him Clyfford and Wallang gais; Quhar king Eduuard was rycht faynoff that fang.
Throw Durisder he tuk the gaynest gayt; Rycht fayn he wald with Sotheroun mak debait.
Butler wald fayn Wallace had yoldyn beyn Or the erll com: for thir causis was seyn; His grant schyr bathe and his fadyr he slew.
And dredelees, for hertes ese of yow, 1740 Right fayn wolde I amende it, wiste I how.
But al for nought; he nolde his cause pleyne, 1230 But seyde, he felte a grevous maladye A-boute his herte, and fayn he wolde dye.
For was ther never fowl so fayn of May, 425 As I shal been, whan that she cometh in Troye, That cause is of my torment and my Ioye.
She seyde eek, she was fayn with him to mete, And stood forth mewet, milde, and mansuete.
And eem, y-wis, faynwolde I doon the beste, If that I hadde grace to do so.
And of Eleyne and him he wolde fayn Delivered been, and seyde, that him leste To slepe, and after tales have reste.
Thus causelees is cropen in-to yow; The harm of which I wolde fayn delivere!
And of Eleyne and him he woldefayn Delivered been, and seyde that him leste To slepe, and after tales have reste.
God helpe me so, I can not tellen whider We mighten goon, if I shal soothly seyn, Ther any wight is of us more fayn Than Sarpedoun; and if we hennes hye Thus sodeinly, I holde it vilanye.
That wikked wivere, 1010 Thus causelees is cropen in-to yow; The harm of which I wolde fayn delivere!
Now,' quod I, 'fayn wolde I here, how suche dignitees acorden with shrewes.
But faynwolde I, and it were your wil, blisse of the knotte to me were declared.
Thou desyrest (quod she) faynto here of tho thinges there I lefte?
For clerkes saye, we shullen be fayn For hir lyvelod [to] swete and swinke, And they right nought us give agayn, 35 Neyther to ete ne yet to drinke.
And many of yowyr contre men thynk the same; but they be hertty inow to yow-ward, and full fayn wold her god tydyngys fro yow.
I wolde fayn doo well yf I cowde, and as I canne I wol doo to youre pleasure and profet; and in such thyngs as I cannot skyle of, I wyll take a vyse of such as I know that be youre frendes and doo as well as I canne.
Yf it pleasyd you, I wold ryght fayn that John Jenney werre putte oute of the Comyssyon of the Peas, and that my brother Wyll.
I take God to my wyttnesse, I wold as fayn do that myght be un to your honor, worsschippe, and profit as any herthly man can thynke.
Item, I wold fayn have sum man to be bayle of Heylisdon and Drayton, &c.
I wold fayn knowe, for the courtes for the half yere wold bene holde for nede.
God help; me thynkyth by my moder that she wold ryght fayn that ye dyde well and that ye myght spyde ryght well in your mater.
And for lak of copies of the plee, I am fayn to sewe for newe copies therof for your counsell.
I trow I xall be fayn to contente hem or ellys they xall be unpayyd.
For thar is nothir man na page, 500 "In all this land that ne sall be "Fayn to mak thaim-selvyn fre.
He durst nocht to the planys ga, For all the commownys went him fra; That for thar liffis war full fayn To pas to the Inglis pes agayn.
For he wald fayn that end war maid Of that at he begonnyn had, And he wist weill he mycht nocht bring It to gud end but travalyng.
LVII ‘My wound is deep: I am fayn to sleep, Take thou the vaward of me, And hide me by the bracken bush Grows on yon lilye-lee.
For wel she hadde herd seyd, that thilke day The markis sholde wedde, and, if she mighte, She wolde fayn han seyn som of that sighte.
And if ther be any thing that displese hem, I preye hem also that they arrette it to the defaute of myn unconninge, and nat to my wil, that wolde ful fayn have seyd bettre if I hadde had conninge.
Daun Iohn answerde, 'certes, I am fayn That ye in hele ar comen hoom agayn.
Biheste is dette, and I wol holde fayn Al my biheste; I can no better seyn.
And thus with Ioye, and hope wel to fare, 2435 Arcite anon un-to his inne is fare, As fayn as fowel is of the brighte sonne.
Fayn he wolde it were · dressed among hem alle, 15 That ech of hem hadde his part · as it mighte falle.
Paye it agayn whan it lyth in your ese; (291) After my might ful fayn wolde I yow plese.
And I his man, maad with myn honde, I wolde right fayn undirstonde To knowen of what kinde he be, If any wolde enferme me.
Bialacoil nist what to sey; Ful fayn he wolde have fled awey, For fere han hid, nere that he 3855 Al sodeynly took him with me.
Bess was for founding a college, Mercy a hospital, and she spake soe experimentallie of its conditions that I was fayn to goe partners with her in the same.
Bess was for founding a College, Mercy a Hospital, and she spake soe experimentallie of its Conditions that I was fayn to goe Partners with her in the same.
And the Pre-apprehension of this soe belaboured my alreadie o'erburthened Spiritts, as that I was fayn to betake myself to the Nurserie, and lose all Thought and Reflection in my little Bess's prettie Ways.
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