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An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.

Go then merrily to Heaven.

The more fools the more one laughs.

Some credit in being jolly.

A very merry, dancing, drinking, Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time.

And mo the merier is a Prouerbe eke.

Be merry if you are wise.

Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee, In unreprov'd pleasures free.

Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare.

What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours.

Hostess, clap to the doors. Watch to-night, pray to-morrow. Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you! What, shall we be merry? Shall we have a play extempore.

And if you can be merry then, I'll say A man may weep upon his wedding day.

We never valued this poor seat of England, And therefore, living hence, did give ourself To barbarous license; as 'tis ever common That men are merriest when they are from home.

So the gods bless me, When all our offices have been oppressed With riotous feeders, when our vaults have wept With drunken spilth of wine, when every room Hath blazed with lights and brayed with minstrelsy, I have retired me to a wasteful cock And set mine eyes at flow.

Berowne they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal.

To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

Be large in mirth; anon we'll drink a measure The table round.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, And let my liver rather heat with wine Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.