fashery

"'Never you fash your thumb about that, Maister Francie,' returned the landlady with a knowing wink, 'every Jack will find a Jill, gang the world as it may; and, at the warst o't, better hae some fashery in finding a partner for the night, than get yoked with ane that you may not be able to shake off the morn.'"

The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836

-- "Every Jack will find a Jill, gang the world as it may -- and, at the warst o't, better hae some fashery in finding a partner for the night, than get yoked with ane that you may not be able to shake off the morn."

St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801

Tofano was nowise moved by these words from his besotted intent; wherefore quoth she to him, 'Harkye now, I can no longer brook this thy fashery, God pardon it thee!

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344

“Never you fash your thumb about that, Maister Francie,” returned the landlady, with a knowing wink. — “Every Jack will find a Jill, gang the world as it may — and, at the warst o’t, better hae some fashery in finding a partner for the night, than get yoked with ane that you may not be able to shake off the morn.”

Saint Ronan's Well 2008