well-favouredlywell-favoredlyadv.

1528 W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man To Rdr. f. xv^v To translate it welfaveredly, so that it have the same grace and swetnesse..in the latyne, as it hath in the hebrue.

1538 T. Elyot Dict. Pulchre, an aduerbe, signifyeth fayre, beautifully, well fauoredly.

1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 7 We dooe not put images to makyng but onely to suche werkemenne of whom wee see some noumbre of images welfauouredly and mynionly made afore.

1542 R. Taverner Second Bk. Garden of Wysdome (new ed.) f. 32 So when the Persians had well fauoredly wasshed theyr throtes wyth wine, forgettyng all honeste sobrietie they began to dally w^t the Ladyes.

1562 W. Turner Bk. Natures Bathes Eng. f. 1^v, in 2nd Pt. Herball He that had ben in Italye and Germany, and had sene howe costly and wellfauoredly the bathes are trimmed and appoynted there..woulde [etc.].

1592 T. Lodge Euphues Shadow sig. L Philamour inuited thus kindly, fell to his victuals wel fauoredly, and both of them tooke the repast more pleasantly.

1676 T. Ellwood Truth Prevailing vi. 152 Let us now carry this Reason of his along with us to his Argument, and see how wellfavouredly it will look there.

1790 A. Shirrefs Poems Gloss. 39/1 Weelfar'dly, cleverly, with a good grace.

1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Weill Weil-faur'tlie, handsomely.

1864 W. D. Latto Tammas Bodkin xxxii. 338 I could nae langer weel-faurdly resist an' withstand the pressure o' his invitations.

1921 H. F. Rubinstein & C. Bax Shakespeare iv. 77 How should I write well-favouredly in a world that is all corruption?

1773 R. Fergusson Poems 90 Whan I shoot my nose in, ten to ane If I weelfardly see my ane hearthstane.

1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 100 Diogenes..tooke abrode thongue..and the same wel fauouredly bestowed about y^e ribbes and pate of Midias.

1565 King Daryus sig. C.i^v He wil not away til I canuis him welfauoredly.

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 992 They them selues were oftentimes put to flight, and welfauoredly beaten.

1625 P. Heylyn Μικρόκοσμος (rev. ed.) 338 The [Russian] women..thinke themselues neither loved nor regarded, vnlesse they be twice or thrice aday welfauoredly[1652 well favouredly] swadled.

1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre ii. xxiv. 74 He would often give a smart jest,..and sometimes he was well-favouredly met with; as the best fencer in wits school hath now and then an unhappy blow dealt him.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew I Swing'd him off, I lay'd on and beat him well-favoredly.

1720 tr. German Rogue xxix. 78 She still denied it, which put Sir Crape into such a Fury, that he took a good Stick and bang'd her well-favouredly.

1822 Scots Mag. Sept. 309/2 Nithsdale aik can clour a fallow's croun just as weel-faurdly as Gallowa' crabtree.

1896 W. Morris Well at World's End I. ii. xxxvii. 360 He knocked our folk about well-favouredly, and seemed to think little of it.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. f. 365^v/2 About the sute wherof, when much money was bestowed on both sides welfauordly.