different between ifere vs yfere

English

ifere (not comparable)

From Old English ge- + f?ra 'associate, comrade, fellow-disciple'

yfere (not comparable)

(obsolete, poetic) Together. [13th-18th c.]
- c. 1385, Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, II:
Of this and that they pleide and gonnen wade / In many an vnkouth, gladde, and depe matere, / As frendes doon whan thei ben mette y-fere [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:
  So goodly all agreed they forth yfere did ryde.

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