“Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall”
Walter Raleigh Sr.
“It's hame and it's hame, hame fain wad I be, / O, hame, hame, hame to my ain countree!”
Allan Cunningham
“Wedlock, indeed, hath oft compared been -To public feasts, where meet a public rout - Where they are without would fain go in, And they that are within would fain go out”
John Davies
“I would fain die a dry death.”
William Shakespeare
“And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain crucify those who devise their own virtue - they hate the lonesome ones”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Does he paint? he fain would write a poem, Does he write? he fain would paint a picture”
Robert Browning
“He would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat.”
Bible
