Definition of "cheare"

It was one of the state maxims of this philosophic monarch, in his advice to his son, "To allure the common people to a common amitie among themselves; and that certain daies in the yeere should be appointed for delighting the people with public spectacles of all honest games and exercise of arms; making playes and lawful games in Maie, and good cheare at Christmas; as also for convening of neighbours, for entertaining friendship and heartliness, by honest feasting and merriness; so that the sabbothes be kept holie, and no unlawful pastime be used.

1850, Isaac Disraeli, Literary Character of Men of Genius‎

With chaunge of cheare the seeming simple maid Let fall her eyen, as shamefast to the earth, 240 And yeelding soft, in that she nought gain-said, So forth they rode, he feining seemely merth, And she coy lookes: so dainty they say maketh derth.

1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I‎, published 1921