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[ For that he May not fulfille his volunte . Rom. of the Rose , 1. 5276. For of free choice and hertely volente , She hat he to God avowed chastité. Lydgate , MS. Ashmole 339, f. 15. ( Hall i well .) After me made by thy will and uolente To take this woman of the fayry, This here diffamed serpent vnto se. Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3473. "Sir," quod the i, " yef it be not thus, doth with vs youre volente." Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 29. And the seid Tuddenham and Heydon wold after theýr voulente have it hald yn meen of the maner of Hetersete, whych sufficient evidenses that ye have specify eth no thyng soo. Paston Letters , I. 173. He has had Compa ion upon Lovers, and generously engag'd a Volunteer in this Action, for our Service. Congreve, Way of the World, v. 14. 2. A person who enters military service of his own free will, and not by constraint or compulsion; one who offers to serve, and generally receives some consideration or privileges on cap or head-dre worn in the fourteenth century by either sex. The tapes of hir white voluper Were of the same suyte of hir coler. Chaucer, Miller's Tale, 1. 55.