well-willing

Fair fellows well-willing when wendeth the war-tide,

The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous

When old Gerarde asks his _courteous and well-willing readers_ -- "whither do all men walk for their honest recreation, but where the earth hath most beneficially painted her face with flourishing colours? and what season of the year more longed for than the spring, whose gentle breath enticeth forth the kindly sweets, and makes them yield their fragrant smells?"

On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Samuel Felton

From this time till the end of his life he is a houseless outlaw, abiding in all the most remote parts of the island -- "Grettir's lairs," as they are called, it would seem, to this day -- sometimes countenanced for a short time by well-willing men of position, sometimes dwelling with supernatural creatures, -- Hallmund, a kindly spirit or cave-dweller with a hospitable daughter, or the half-troll giant

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889

But this is logomachy: and in fact a well-willing reader _can_ get very fairly excited while the Cavalier is escaping after Marston

The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889

An entirely well-willing reviewer thought me "piqued" at the American remark, and proceeded to intimate a doubt whether I knew M. Bédier's work, partly on lines (as to the _Cantilenae_) which I had myself anticipated, and partly on the question of the composition of the _chansons_ by this or that person or class, in this or that place, at that or the other time.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

For as a vessel which often receiveth water remaineth clean, although the water poured in be presently poured out again, so likewise, if spiritual doctrine often run through a well-willing mind, although it abide not there, nevertheless it maketh and keepeth the mind clean and pleasing to God.

A Mirror for Monks. 1506-1566 1872

God; Amor benevolentiae, love of well-willing, which he did bear to them before the world was, and it is called the love of election.

The Tryal & Triumph of Faith: or An Exposition of the History of Christs dispossessing of the daughter of the woman of Canaan. 1600-1661 1645