Is "fare you well" still used in Norfolk?

Question

[Jean Rhys's](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/14/jean-rhys-brief-survey-short-story) story "Till September Petronella" contains the following passage: > 'Fare you well,' he said. 'That's what they say in Norfolk, where I come from.' > 'Good-bye.' > 'No, say fare you well.' The story was published in 1968 in the collection [*Tigers Are Better-Looking*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigers_Are_Better-Looking) but written in the 1950s. I suspect the stories in that volume actually reflect an earlier time period. Some people on the [WordReference forum](https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/and-thus-fare-you-well.3334950/) also found the phrase in a novel about the last days of Anne Boleyn and appear to assume it may have been in use at the time of Henry VIII. However, I was wondering if the phrase "fare you well" is still in use in Norfolk. (Not necessarily by everybody; it might sound old-fashioned to younger generations.)

Answer 1

According to etymology “Fare-You-Well,” is a colloquialism and precursor to the more widely known “Fare-Thee-Well.” In the article I perused, it is identified as being American and appearing during the 1800’s 

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/424082/how-did-fare-thee-well-come-to-mean-perfectly-well

However, I found the phrase referenced in Shakespeare

https://books.google.com/books?id=FW1y3_774ZQC&pg=PA242&dq=%22fare+you+well%22+Norfolk&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjLu7PKmd_oAhUHc98KHYhrB0gQ6AEwAHoECAUQAg#v=onepage&q=%22fare%20you%20well%22%20Norfolk&f=false

Following the lead “Farethewell”  “fare-you-well” is mentioned on mainlynorfolk.info – at least musically there is evidence of its use today

https://mainlynorfolk.info/louis.killen/songs/goodbyefaretheewell.html