13 Words to use with merrie

Read, for instance, the ballads of the "merrie greenwood men," which gradually collected into the Geste of Robin Hood, and you will understand better, perhaps, than from reading many histories what the common people of England felt and thought while their lords and masters were busy with impossible metrical romances.

There are thirty-seven piecesall in humorous and "righte merrie conceite."

Host, I have thee, brave spirit, tha'rt of the true seede of Troy, lets be merrie and wise, merrie hearts live long; mine Host, my brave Host, with his neighbor Cornutus shall bee two of the Maskers, and the Morrice shall be daunc'd.

Be like thy selfe then, have a merrie hart, Thou shalt have gold to mend thy povertie, And after this live ever wealthilie.

cit. i. 455; The Denham Tracts, edited by Dr. James Hardy (London, 1892-1895), ii. 25 sq. Herrick, Hesperides, "Ceremonies for Christmasse": "Come, bring with a noise, My merrie merrie boyes, The Christmas log to the firing;...

He thus addresses the merrie month of MAY.[057] MAY.

Now all those needlesse works are laid away; 455 Now once a weeke, upon the Sabbath day, It is enough to doo our small devotion, And then to follow any merrie motion.

O Flocks, O Faunes, and O ye pleasaunt Springs 145 Of Tempe, where the countrey nymphs are rife, Through whose not costly care each shepheard sings As merrie notes upon his rusticke fife As that Ascraean bard*, whose fame now rings Through the wide world, and leads as ioyfull life; 150 Free from all troubles and from worldly toyle, In which fond men doe all their dayes turmoyle.

She began humming to an almost inaudible accompaniment on the piano: "'Ring, ting, it is the merrie springtime....'" The rain rolled dully down the clouded window-panes and spattered off the English-ivy leaves below the sill.

cit. i. 455; The Denham Tracts, edited by Dr. James Hardy (London, 1892-1895), ii. 25 sq. Herrick, Hesperides, "Ceremonies for Christmasse": "Come, bring with a noise, My merrie merrie boyes, The Christmas log to the firing;...

The 27 of October we passed by Zante with a merrie winde, the 29 by Corfu, and the third of Nouember we arriued at Istria, and there we left our great ship, and tooke small boates to bring vs to Venice.

Merrie companions, wench, Merry companions.

A mad merrie grig; all good spirits; wilt thou doe it, Bos? Bos.

13 Words to use with  merrie