Sidenote: 1451 or later] On Thurisday the wall was mad zarde hey, and a good wylle be fore evyn it reyned so sore that they were fayne to helle the wall, and leve werke.
And therfore we wolde fayne have mor knowlege, yiff ye think it were to doo.
The Baron of Grastoke ys com owt of the west, Wyth hym a noble companye; All they loge at your fathers thys nyght, And the Battel fayne wold they see.
What, though the world once went hard with me, when I was fayne to carry my playing-fardle a foot-backe: Tempora mutantur .
Wallace wald fayne at the Wallang haiff beyne; Off Westmorland the lord was thaim betweyne: Wallace on him he set ane awfull dynt, 745 Throuch basnet stuff, that na steill mycht it stynt; Derffly to dede he left him in that place.
At the Corheid full fayne thai wald haif beyne; Bot Inglissmen weyll has thair purposs seyne.
Off this tithingis the byschope was full glaid, Amendis off him full fayne he wald haiff haid.
A litill slepe I wald fayne that we had; 495 ‘With yone men syne luk how we may ws glaid.
Hesilrige thocht it was na tyme to ly; Out off that houss full fayne he wald haiff beyne.
Schir Jhon the Graym full fayne wald haiff beyne in; Eduuard him bad at the castell begyne; “For off thir folk we haiff bot litill dreid.
He drew a suerd at helpit him at neide, 55 Throuch oute the thikest of the press he yeid; And at his horss full fayne he wald haif beyne.
At the Gask woode full faynehe wald haiff beyne; 95 Bot this sloth brache, quhilk sekyr was and keyne, On Wallace fute folowit so felloune fast, Quhill in thar sicht thai prochit at the last.
The sherif dwelled in Notingham; He was fayne he was agone; And Robyn and his mery men Went to wode anone.
I make myn avowe to God,’ sayde the shyref, ‘That syght wolde I fayne se.
And in deede hee was so cloyed with men which came to beholde him, that hee was fayne sooner than hee woulde, to returne to the Emperours court from whence hee came, and leaue Wittenberg before hee woulde.
Faine woulde I be knowen where I was borne, fayne woulde I haue thee knowen where fame sits in her chiefest theater.
Others they have not past two or three naturell, but are fayne to borrow of the English: mary, this want is releeuved with a flood of most bitter curses, and spitefull nick-names.
Fayne was he therefore to shew his mishap, and by gestures to craue ayd in earnest of the Gentlewomen, whom hee had aforetime often scared in sport.
Alas," thay sayn, "we fayne perfeccion, In clothes wide and lake oure libertie But all the synne mote on oure frendes be.
The sheryf dwelled in Notynghame, He was fayne that he was gone, And Robyn and his mery men Went to wode anone.
Light persounes to saye and beleve that the Kinges Highnes is fayne to Hire with Fees the moost malefactors ‹in order› to syt in rest, but also not to Loke vppon theire most detestable offences[496].
Tharfor I wald fayne set my will, Giff my wyt mycht suffice thartill, To put in wryt a suthfast story, That it lest ay furth in memory, Swa that na tyme of lenth it let, 15 Na ger it haly be forget.
The lordis of the land wes fayne Quhen thai wist he wes cummyn agane, And till him went in full gret hy, And he resavit thame richt gladly, And maid a fest and gladsum cher.
And in a nycht syne and a day, Scho set hym in so hard assay, That he, with sevintene, in a bat, 645 Wes fayne for to hald hame his gat!
Solon can fayne himself madde, to further the Athenians.
Forsoth the learned were fayne covertly in comodies to declare abuses, and by playing to incite the people to vertues, whe[n] they might heare no preaching.
No parte of the yere wote I where to turne me, 825 But even in my house am I fayne to hyde me.
I haue assayed out to put The fier thus begoone, And haue attempted of to cut, The threede which loue hath spoone: And new alliance fayne would flee Of him whom I loue best, But that the Gods haue willed me To yeld to his request.
Fayne would I deuyse that you and I may in honour lyue together, accordyng to our calling.
The Wyddow by magike arte what so euer it cost, wouldfayne haue recouered hir lost Louer.
The Scholler stoode belowe in a Court, benoommed for colde, the Wyddowe preached a lofte in the top of a Tower, and fayne would haue had water to coole hir extreme heate.
I thought my rochet should have been regarded thoughe I were not; but it woulde not serve, it was fayne to give place to Robyn Hoode's men.
I pray you let them not, I was fayne there to geve place to Robyn Hoode.
The kyng wolde fayne that he ded were, And he wyst nat on what manere.
The kyng wolde fayne that he wer ded, And hym wyst in what maner.
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