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1 I'll let you see how fain I serve you.
2 O how fain would God beat it into the heads of the world, that he hath for men a covenant of grace.
3 He spake: "Ye must go to meet them out before the palace, that they may well perceive how fain we be to see them here."
4 How fain she was to see the heroes from the Hunnish land!
5 How fain I would say more; yet 'tis all but the saying with more circumstance than I am
6 How fain would the man lay hold on something, only he wants divine help, that is, the word of God, to bottom his things upon.
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