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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Fare v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fared p. pr. & vb. n. Faring.]
 1. To go; to pass; to journey; to travel.
 So on he fares, and to the border comes
 Of Eden.   --Milton.
 2. To be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circummstances or train of events, fortunate or unfortunate; as, he fared well, or ill.
    So fares the stag among the enraged hounds.   --Denham.
    I bid you most heartily well to fare.   --Robynson (More's Utopia).
    So fared the knight between two foes.   --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.