foy

1. (obsolete, rare) Faith, allegiance.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938 ↗, book II, canto X:

     He Easterland subdewd, and Danmarke wonne, / And of them both did foy and tribute raise, / The which was dew in his dead fathers dayes {{...}

2. (obsolete) A feast given by one about to leave a place.
   • 1661 November 25, Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys: 1661, 2006, Echo Library, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=MwCB-079PAQC&pg=PA124&dq=%22friends+of+his,+his+foy,+he+being+to+set+sail+to-day%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=3bSUUfSVIemfiAfx8oHACg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22friends%20of%20his%2C%20his%20foy%2C%20he%20being%20to%20set%20sail%20to-day%22&f=false page 124],

     To Westminster Hall in the morning with Captain Lambert, and there he did at the Dog give me and some other friends of his, his foy, he being to set sail to-day towards the Streights.

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