Monday, January 31, 2011

fain

feyn, adverb

1.  Content; willing
2.  Gladly

Quote:
"I saw Mark Antony offer him a crown; - yet 'twas not a crown neither, 'twas one of these cononets; - and, as I told you, he put it by once: but, for allt hat, to my thinking, he would fain have had it."
-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

Origin:
Fain has ancient roots in the old english faeg, "happy."

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