Ben Jonson uses it in his "Case is Altered:" "I confess Cupid's carouse; he plays super nagulum with my liquor of life."Act iv.

He himself complained about this time that he could not "drink a full carouse of sack but the State in a few hours was advertised thereof."

The old Romanes, when they were disposed to quaff lustily, would drinke so many carouses as there were letters in the names of their mistresses, or lovers; so easily were they overcome with this vice, who by their virtue some other time, became masters of the world; but these devices are peradventure stale now; there be finer devices to provoke drunkennesse.

When I returned to Jalta, I was obliged to wait more than two hours, as the gentlemen with whom I was to go on board had not yet finished their carouse.

Nightly could I, till morning grey arrested, Gaze on the dancing, stamping, whistling crowd, Watching the villager,young, happy, festive And hearing drunken peasants glad carouse!

For that one word you shall pledge me a carouse: eat a spoonful of the curd to allay your choler.

They propose a carouse over their booty, and one is sent to the town to buy wine.