Afeard

"_Afeard_ we batter _'em_ down," replied the Huron, with a sparkle of his black eyes.

The Riflemen of the Miami Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878

‘Afeard’, used by Spenser, is the regular participle of the old verb to ‘affear’, still existing as a law term, as

English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

III. i.116 (52,9) [to make me afeard] _Afeard_ is from _to fear_, by the old form of the language, as _an hungred_, from _to hunger_.

Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746

Afeard that my Lady Castlemaine will keep still with the King

Quotations from Diary of Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys 1668

Afeard that my Lady Castlemaine will keep still with the King

Quotations from Diary of Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys 1668

Afeard that my Lady Castlemaine will keep still with the King

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

Afeard that my Lady Castlemaine will keep still with the King

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

Afeard that my Lady Castlemaine will keep still with the King

Quotations from Diary of Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys 1668

Afeard that my Lady Castlemaine will keep still with the King

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 16: May/June 1662 Samuel Pepys 1668

Afeard that my Lady Castlemaine will keep still with the King

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1662 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668