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Video cameraman Scott Fain, 54, likes what he hears at the event.

Richard would fain have moralised and comforted, but she felt as if she knew it all before, and heard with languid attention.

I am a poor fellow, sir; that shall be a longtime getting rich, and would fain not die till I am so.

I longed to hear her and to see her always; I would have died in rapture at her side, but I was never fain to wed her.

The incident recalled was one that he would fain have forgotten, one the truth of which he intended at all hazards to conceal.

There is an obvious allusion in this line to the common proverb—'As fain as fowl of a fair morrow,' which is quoted in the Kn.