"Come now, discourse to me of worldly thingshow men do trim their beards these days, what sins be most i' the fashion, if Duke Ivo sleepeth a-nights, whether Pentavalon city standeth yet?" "Aha!" cried the Pardoner (coin safely pouched), "I can tell ye tales a-plenty: sly, merry tales of lovely ladies fair and gay.

Christmas was merry Christmas at the old family mansion in Fishkill.

She listened to the tramping feet and merry voices with a heart that sank ever lower and lower.

That's the worst of putting invalid old women together," laughed Mercy with a kindly, merry little laugh.

King Richard died upon the battlefield, in such a way as properly became a lion-hearted king, as you yourself, no doubt, know; so, after a time, the Earl of Huntingdonor Robin Hood, as we still call him as of old finding nothing for his doing abroad, came back to merry England again.

The boys, all more or less excited, joined in heartily and uproariously "For to-night we'll merry merry be!

Knebworth, with all thy glories and all the glad faces and merry hearts I met within your wallsa long, long, farewell!" CHAPTER XXII.

The club dates from Colonial times, too, so there must have been a number of them, and if their spirits were there in the room they must have seen as merry a party as the old room had ever witnessed.

Such men are commonly the trifling things of the world, good to make merry the company, and whom only men have to do withal when they have nothing to do, and none are less their friends than who are most their company.

'Hiram,' sez she, 'ef yeou'll stay to hum, merry some smart girl, an' kerry on the farm, I'll leave yeou the hull er my fortin.

God rest you merry gentlemen.

was there ever so merry a note?

"By the hilt of my sword," said stout King Richard, "this is as bold and merry a knave as ever I heard tell of.

"I went and sat among 'em all at my old 33 years desk yester morning; and deuce take me if I had not yearnings at leaving all my old pen-and-ink fellows, merry sociable lads, at leaving them in the Lurch, fag, fag, fag.

"Messire," said she, "methinks you do forget I am the" "I remember thou art woman and thy nameHelen!" Now at this laughed she softly and thereafter falleth to singing very sweet and blithe and merry withal.

But the fact is that I have nothing plann'd, Unless it were to be a moment merry A novel word in my vocabulary.

Quoth merry Robin, "Here, methinks, is good lodging, where peaceful folk, such as we be, can eat in quietness; therefore we will rest here, and see what may, perchance, fall into our luck-pot."

His two sons, who broke loose from him, went into the world, lived a wild, merry life, and died there, he never named.

The laughter and merry shouts of the bathers, who were all unaware that a tragedy was developing close at hand, rang in the girl's ears as she peered eagerly ahead for a sign to guide her.

For thou didst give the prize away To merry Robin Hood.

The loon spoke out clear, like a bugle on the lakes, and his voice went echoin' around among the hills; the frogs were out and out jolly, while the old woods were full of happy voices and merry songs as if all nater was runnin' over with gladness and joy; even the night breeze, as it sighed and moaned among the tree-tops, seemed to be whisperin' to itself of the joy and brightness and glory of such an evenin'.

"Hark, you merry maids, do not dance so, for see the he-goat is at hand, ready to pounce upon you.

The merry merry maidens.

He's lovelytall and dignified, with grayish hair and merry eyes like Mother's, only his are behind glasses.

We have heard that he has been a gallant in his time; and more than once he has told little stories of dances and harvest homes, and merry meetings at the wealthy farmers' in the neighbourhood, of the moonlight walk home, and of his companions counting their won guineas on their return from an evening partyall of which throw into shade the social amusements of our artificial times.