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MERRIMENT
MIDNIGHT


1

Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

Love's Labour's Lost. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 867.


2

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

Macbeth. Act III. Sc. 4. L.


3

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

Merchant of Venice. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 80.


4

As merry as the day is long.

Much Ado About Nothing. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 45.


5

You have a merry heart.
Yea, my lord; I thank it, poor fool, it keeps
on the windy side of care.

Much Ado About Nothing. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 323.


6

Your silence most offends me, and to be merry best becomes you; for out of question, you were born in a merry hour.
No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under that I was born.

Much Ado About Nothing. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 345.


7

I am not merry; but I do beguile
The thing I am by seeming otherwise.

Othello. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 123.


8

And frame your mind to mirth and merriment,
Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.

Taming of the Shrew. Induction. Sc. 2. L. 137.


9

Merrily, merrily, shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

Tempest. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 93.


10

When every room
Hath blaz'd with lights and brayed with minstrelsy.

Timon of Athens. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 169.


11

Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way,
And merrily hent the stile-a:
A merry heart goes all the day,
Your sad tires in a mile-a.

Winter's Tale. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 132.


12

And let's be red with mirth.

Winter's Tale. Act IV. Sc. 4. L. 54.


13

The glad circle round them yield their souls
To festive mirth, and wit that knows no gall.

ThomsonThe Seasons. Summer. L. 403.


14

'Tis merry in hall
Where beards wag all.

TusserFive Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. August's Abstract. Adam DavieLife of Alexander. (About 1312) In Warton's—History of English Poetry. Vol . II. P. 10. Quoted by Ben JonsonMasque of Christmas.


MIDGE

15

Meanwhile, there is dancing in yonder green bower,
A swarm of young midges, they dance high and low;
'Tis a sweet little species that lives but one hour,
And the eldest was born half an hour ago.

Owen Meredith (Lord Lytton)—Midges.


16

The midge's wing beats to and fro
A thousand times ere one can utter "O."

Coventry PatmoreThe Cry at Midnight.


MIDNIGHT

17

Is there not
A tongue in every star that talks with man,
And wooes him to be wise? nor wooes in vain;
This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,
And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.

Anna Letitia BarbauldA Summer Evening's Meditation. L. 48.


18

That hour o' night's black arch the keystane.

BurnsTam o' Shanter.


19

It was evening here,
But upon earth the very noon of night.

DantePurgatorio. Canto XV. L. 5.


20

I stood on the bridge at midnight,
As the clocks were striking the hour,
And the moon rose over the city,
Behind the dark church tower.

LongfellowBridge.


21

Midnight! the outpost of advancing day!
The frontier town and citadel of night!

LongfellowTwo Rivers. Pt. I.


22

O wild and wondrous midnight,
There is a might in thee
To make the charmed body
Almost like spirit be,
And give it some faint glimpses
Of immortality!

LowellMidnight.


23

’Tis midnight now. The bent and broken moon,
Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles,
Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.

Joaquin MillerIna. Sc. 2.


24

Soon as midnight brought on the dusky hour
Friendliest to sleep and silence.

MiltonParadise Lost . Bk. V. L. 667.


25

The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve;
Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time.

Midsummer Night's Dream. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 370.


26

Midnight, yet not a nose
From Tower Hill to Piccadilly snored!

Horace and James SmithRejected Addresses. The Rebuilding. (Imitation of Southey)


27

Midnight, and yet no eye
Through all the Imperial City closed in sleep.

SoutheyCurse of Kehama. Pt. I. 1.