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Very merry.
From
Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, 1598.
BEATRICE:
No, but to the
gate; and there will the devil meet
me, like an old cuckold, with horns on
his head, and
say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to
heaven; here's
no place for you maids:' so deliver
I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter
for the
heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and
there live we
as merry as the day is long.
Shakespeare also used the phrase in King John, 1596.
ARTHUR:
Mercy
on me!
Methinks no body should be sad but I:
Yet, I remember, when I was
in France,
Young gentlemen would be as sad as night,
Only for wantonness.
By my christendom,
So I were out of prison and kept sheep,
I should be
as merry as the day is long;
And so I would be here, but that I doubt
My uncle practises more harm to me:
He is afraid of me and I of him:
Is
it my fault that I was Geffrey's son?
No, indeed, is't not; and I would to
heaven
I were your son, so you would love me, Hubert.
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