A few fun turns of phrase from William Morris's The Sundering Flood

[cimorene]

1. went up to each one of the said men and made unked signs over him,


2. After this they came into worser lands, rocky and barren, but made their way through somehow, whereas the Carline was deft at snaring small deer, as coneys and the like, and so they lived and got forward on their way.


3. and all things flourished there: old foes became new friends, and all men were well content, save it were the King and his faitours, who rued it now that they had sold themselves so cheap.


4. "And, sooth to say, now at once is the best time to do this, while the foe is all astonied at what befel last night."


5. That great battle was fully foughten on the first of May,

Middle English unked, past participle of unkythen, equivalent to un- +‎ ked (an old past participle form of kithe). 1 (UK, dialect, archaic) odd; strange 2 (UK, dialect, archaic) ugly 3 (UK, dialect, archaic) uncouth 4 (UK, dialect, archaic) lonely; dreary

Middle English faitour, from Anglo-Norman faitour, cognate with Old French faitor (“doer, maker”), from Latin factor, factōrem, from facere (“do, make”). (archaic) charlatan or imposter.