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"Section F, G and H"

Hudibras.


3. To be treated or entertained at table, or
with bodily or social comforts; to live.


There was a certain rich man which . . . fared
sumptuously every day.
Luke xvi. 19.


4. To happen well, or ill; -- used
impersonally; as, we shall see how it will fare with
him.


So fares it when with truth falsehood
contends.
Milton.


5. To behave; to conduct one's self.
[Obs.]


She ferde [fared] as she would
die.
Chaucer.


Fare (?), n. [AS. faru journey,
fr. faran. See Fare, v.]
1. A journey; a passage. [Obs.]


That nought might stay his fare.

Spenser.


2. The price of passage or going; the sum
paid or due for conveying a person by land or water; as, the
fare for crossing a river; the fare in a coach or by
railway.


3. Ado; bustle; business.


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