Farewéll or Fárewell, a kind wish at parting: Sonn. 87, 1. Pilgr. 185. Pilgr. 185 Tp. I, 1, 65. II, 2, 182. III, 1, 90. Gentl. I, 1, 62. II, 2, 16. IV, 2, 84. IV, 4, 183. Wiv. III, 2, 88. Meas. II, 1, 222. III, 1, 176. Err. I, 2, 30. Mids. I, 1, 220. II, 1, 16. V, 1, 352. Merch. II, 3, 8. II, 5, 45. Caes. V, 1, 117 etc. etc. With to: “f. to your worship,” Wiv. I, 4, 176. Shr. III, 2, 198. Caes. V, 5, 31 etc. “and so we bid f.” R3 III, 5, 71. bid me f. As Epil. R3 III, 5, 71 H6C V, 2, 49. R3 IV, 1, 104. “bidding f. to so sweet a guest,” R2 II, 2, 8. “nor bade f. to him,” Mcb. I, 2, 21 (cf. Bid). Substantively: “welcome ever smiles, and f. goes out sighing,” Troil. III, 3, 169. “take a more dilated f.” All's II, 1, 59. H6C II, 1, 22. Caes. V, 1, 116. Cymb. III, 4, 188. “let Andronicus make this his latest f. to their souls,” Tit. I, 149. “a happy f.” H6C IV, 8, 31. “a brief f.” Cor. IV, 1, 1. “long f.” Ant. V, 2, 295. “a long f. to all my greatness,” H8 III, 2, 351. “we bid a loud f. to these great fellows,” Ant. II, 7, 139. “a volume of --s,” R2 I, 4, 18. “as many --s as be stars in heaven,” Troil. IV, 4, 46.
Used at parting from persons or things renounced or irrecoverably lost; with to: “so f. to the little good you bear me,” H8 III, 2, 350. “bid f. to your good life,” Wiv. III, 3, 127. Oftener without to: “then f. his great renown,” Pilgr. 420. Ado II, 1, 189. III, 1, 109. R2 III, 2, 170. H6A IV, 3, 16. H6A IV, 3, 16 H6B III, 2, 356. H8 III, 2, 281. H8 III, 2, 281 V, 3, 27. Rom. II, 2, 89. “but f. it, for I will use no art,” Hml. II, 2, 99. “bid Bianca f.” Shr. IV, 4, 97.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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