What is "faine"

Usage examples of "faine".

Then said the other sister, And in faith I am married to a husband that hath the gout, twyfold, crooked, nor couragious in paying my debt, I am faine to rub and mollifie his stony fingers with divers sorts of oyles, and to wrap them in playsters and salves, so that I soyle my white and dainty hands with the corruption of filthy clouts, not using my self like a wife, but more like a servant.

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I endevored to speake, and faine would have said, Never did I that fact, and verely the first word, never, I cried out once or twise, somewhat handsome, but the residue I could in no wise pronounce, but still remaining in one voice, cried, Never, never, never.

For the Germination being to passe through the narrow Navell and hole about the midst of the stone, the generative germ is faine to enlengthen itself, and shooting out about an inch, at that distance divideth into the ascending and descending portion.