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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