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a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 13988 (MED) Als he come be a castele a man..praied ihesus til his hous; he made him sembelaund with gode chere.

a1425 Shrewsbury Fragm. in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 2 Þis gift I gif þe with gode chere, Suche dayntese wil do no disese.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) v. l. 67 (MED) Crist Iesus received with good chere Þe twey Mynutes ȝoue of herte entere By þe wydowe.

c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1879) l. 700 And sche hire deth receyuyth with good cheere ffor loue of antonye.

?1537 Hugh of Caumpedene tr. Hist. Kyng Boccus clxxxxiii. sig. Biv^v Forgeuyth god with good chere Al the synnes that a man doth here.

1585 Queenes Entertainem. Woodstocke sig. C2 Now her Maiestie being risen: with good cheere, accompanied with the Queene of the fayrye and the Ladye Caudina; she commeth from her banquite.

1707 M. Prior Ladle: Moral in Poems Several Occasions 50 Ye thus Hospitably live, And Strangers with Good Cheer receive.

1840 Musical Mag. 4 Jan. 1 We begin our second volume with good cheer.

1898 Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineer's Monthly Jrnl. Apr. 262/1 New Year's evening we went with good cheer and best wishes to Brother and Sister Anderson's and spent another very pleasant evening.

1919 Nat. Hist. 19 290 The golden Arctic poppy (Papaver radicatum) for a few weeks in summer greets the botanist with good cheer wherever he may wander.

1993 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 21 Nov. 14/1 Before his death in June, he submitted with good cheer to the publishing routine.

2005 J. M. Coetzee Slow Man ii. 15 How one accepts with good cheer one of the bitterer blows of fate.