For him and for his sons thre;
Mast to tilth he gave him þan,
To flitt þe breres he bigan;
Sua lang wit flitting he þam sloght,
Þat wine-treis he þam wroght."
—(Cursor Mundi, fol. 13.)
[1524] trewðe fest, troth-fast, pledged by troth or plighted faith; fest has usually the sense of confirming, pledging, in O.E.
"Þis neu forward (covenant) was festened þan."
—(Cursor Mundi, fol. 23.)
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