felowe

Wherein thei be righte experte, and almoste (for those quartres) without matche or felowe.

The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

And when he was let in, they sawe him to be almoste frosen for colde: sayinge vnto him, dispatche good felowe, goe into the Bathe, being yet hotte.

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

The maid aunswered: “Maistres, nowe he is in good apparell, he is a verie handsome felowe, and seemeth to be of good reputation and honestie.”

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

Nat lang {172} after one of them cam to hir mornyngly arrayde, and sayde that his felowe was deed, and so required the money, and she delyuered it to hem.

Notes and Queries, Number 41, August 10, 1850 Various

But Demosthenes, that excellent oratour, spake for her and sayd: 'Sir, this mayden is redy to quite her fidelitie, and to deliuer agayne the money that was lefte with her in kepyng, so that thou wylt brynge thy felowe with thee to receyue it.'

Notes and Queries, Number 41, August 10, 1850 Various

“Good felowe, we doe lament thy state: And therefore, if thou wilt ioyne thy self with vs, about an enterprise, which we haue in hande: we warraunt thee, thou shalt get a great deale more than thou hast loste.”

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

Thus we expresse Thraso a boaster, and Demea a sowre felowe.

A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry

Wyckliffe renders the phrase "the german felowe", i.e., "thee, germane [= genuine] comrade."

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

To dresse yo_u_r selfe & do on yo_u_r araye, w_i_t_h_ yo_u_r felowe well [e] & tretably

Caxton's Book of Curtesye Frederick James Furnivall 1867

The oxce is a co {m} panable beste, & amonge his co {m} pani he is very meke/& alwaye he seketh his felowe that was wont to go in the plowghe wyth hym/and whan he fyndeth nat his felow, than cryeth he wyth a lowde voyce, makyng gret mone/as it were one {tha} t wolde make a mourninge co {m} playnt.

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867