I would fain live, Now if I could: would'st thou have loved me then? Amint.

What remained, then, more for this great king, if not to make himself full master of this glorious city which had subdued all the world in days of yore, as it was in his power to do, and as he, perchance, would fain have done, in accordance with his ambition and with some of his council, who urged him mightily thereto, if it were only for to keep himself secure.

"Nay," said William, "Harold was a perjurer; let him have for burial-place the sand of the shore, where he was so madly fain to rule."

This must be some prodigal who hath sold his father's land, and would fain live merrily while the money lasts."

I am a sonwould fain be thought a loving one; You may allow me some fears: do not despise me, If, in a posture foreign to my spirit, And by our well-knit friendship I conjure you, Touch not Sir Walter's life.

When I ventured to point out that she had not been quite truthful in the matter she was at first genuinely and honestly amazed, and subsequently so indignant that I was fain ultimately to apologise.

The doves that are sent to explore are Wearily fain to return, at the best with a leaflet of promise, Fain to return, as they went, to the wandering wave-tost vessel, Fain to reënter the roof which covers the clean and the unclean.

Yet would I fain once more behold the grace Of nature ere

willingly &c adj.; fain, freely, as lief, heart and soul; with pleasure, with all one's heart, with open arms; with good will, with right will;

Transgressor indeed I have been from hour to hour, from day to day: I would fain hope, however, not more flagrantly, or in a worse way than most of my tuneful brethren.

I know not what in course to take me to; Honestly I fain would live, what shall I do?