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1 That was the fellow who would so fain be HIS son-in-law!
2 Yet some of us would so fain contribute our mite!
3 Men would so fain be prophets, when once they have a fellow mortal by the ear.
4 Sir knight, said the king, sith ye would so fain enter, say me of what country ye be.
6 Naught that I ever saw would I so fain bear away with me as yonder shield on the wall.
7 She would so fain have been able to think that the beginning only had as yet come to them.
8 Out upon thee, that thou canst not sustain in argument the character which thou wouldst so fain , assume to thyself!
9 He looked as if he would have had Face-of-god ask of him what made him so fain , but Face-of-god said only:
10 Nay, the doing so does but stamp them the more plainly with that horrid name from which they would so fain escape.
11 VINCENT: You shall not need, uncle, to put me in mind of that, I would so fain have up the rest of our matter.
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