mirth's

Fades, and sweet mirth's own eyes are fain to weep

A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873

And lastly, The ludicrous and jocose lie, uttered by way of jest, and only for mirth's sake, in common converse.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823

Here we supped very merry, and late to bed; Sir William telling me that old Edgeborrow, his predecessor, did die and walk in my chamber, did make me some what afeard, but not so much as for mirth's sake I did seem.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1661 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

Here we supped very merry, and late to bed; Sir William telling me that old Edgeborrow, his predecessor, did die and walk in my chamber, did make me some what afeard, but not so much as for mirth's sake I did seem.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

Edgeborrow, his predecessor, did die and walk in my chamber, did make me some what afeard, but not so much as for mirth's sake I did seem.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 10: April/May 1661 Samuel Pepys 1668

Here we supped very merry, and late to bed; Sir William telling me that old Edgeborrow, his predecessor, did die and walk in my chamber, did make me some what afeard, but not so much as for mirth's sake I did seem.

The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Apr/May 1661 Pepys, Samuel 1661

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Tonight 2010

If he were an unthrift, a ruffian, a drunkard, or a licentious liver, then you had reason; you had reason to take care: but, being none of these, mirth's my witness, an I had twice so many cares as you have, I'd drown them all in a cup of sack.

Every Man in His Humor Ben Jonson 1605

Whose mirth's my health, whose griefe's my harts annoying:

The Affectionate Shepherd Richard Barnfield 1600

Her mirth's my grief j her sullen grief, my mirth;

Emblems, divine and moral 1812