fayne

Some fayne that in that place Mahumet lyued in contemplation.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

And if thei chaunce to be met and asked by the owners of the grounde what they make there, they fayne straighte that they have loste theyr waye, and desyre to be enstructed the beste way to suche a place.

Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

But in processe of tyme, when all hope was paste of their recouerye, they loste not onely their credite, but the creditours desirous to be payde, were fayne to sende them to pryson.

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

And their reuenues (not able to mainteine their expences) began to decrease, whereupon they were fayne to morgage and sell their inheritaunce, in suche wyse as in the ende they grewe to extreme pouertie.

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

And when he had long beholden his manner and order sayd: “Your personage doth not degenerate from the fame of your progenitors, but I would fayne knowe, howe pacient you were in the tyme of your pouertie.”

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

And if he can telle mee of a citie on earthe where one can see more prettye, tiny feete, in neater shoos or gaytered bootes, thann hee may then beholde, I wolde fayne knowe where itt is, thatt I maye go there too.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 Various

¶ And whan thou hast no grutchynge in these/thenne meyst thou be fayne.

A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson

Again The supper of the Lorde was not instituted to the end that such a sacrifice for synne (as they fayne) shuld be made of it/but that in the vse of it the communicantes shuld be put in mynde/and made partakers of that only propiciatorie sacrifice which christe offered ons only for all euer vppon the crosse.

A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the same, by Henry Bullinger Peter Martyr

Æneidos_ into English meetre, said that _Æneas_ was fayne to trudge out of

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

Euen so truly at this daye many do saye that they are more simple then that they can vnderstond the dissension in religion and gyue answer of all controuersies: But they do vnderstond so mutch as sufficith: yet for the ieoperdies which be at hand/or for sum vayne feare/they do fayne that they do not vnderstonde.

A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the same, by Henry Bullinger Peter Martyr