A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1499-1614, 1668-1679
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(Farewele,) Fairweill, int. Also: fareweele, -weill, -weale, farweell; fayrweil(l, fairwele, -weil, -weele, -weell, weal. [ME. farewel, farwel (late 14th c.), f. the phrase fare wel Fare v. 4 b.] Good-bye; adieu.Very common in the 16th c., usually fairweill.a1500 Henr. Fab. 343.
Fair wele, sister, thi feist heir I defy a1500 Doug. King Hart 477.
Fayr weill my freynd, thow did me never deir a1500 Ib. 837.
Adew, fayr weill, wirschip sayis, now I gang 1513 Id. Æn. ii. xii. 54.
Adew, fayr weil, for ay we mon dissevir 1543 Douglas Corr. 152.
And thus, trest cousing, fairweill 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 7377.
The King hir kist, and bad fair weill, adew 1563-1570 Buch. Wr. 58.
Fairweal and God keip you a1605 Montg. Misc. P. xvii. 95.
Fairweill, my love and lady cleir 1614 Sutherland Chart. 188.
We bid yow fairweele 1668 Rec. Convention of Royal Burghs III. 608.
We wish yow a … saffe returne and bids yow fairweill 1679 Red Bk. Menteith II. 177.
I bid yow hartily farweell, … dearest unkell
b. Good-bye to. Also with.c1552 Lynd. Mon. 5093.
Fairweill all vaine felyscitie a1568 Scott iv. 49.
Ffairweill with chestetie Fra wenchis fall to chucking 1573 Satirical Poems xxxix. 20.
Than fair weil thay; the find ressaue the fidder
c. As n. An adieu.a1585 Maitland Quarto MS lxxxiii. 1.
Ane new fairweill, a strainge gudnicht, Of thé … I now will tak
