Listen to the whole thing below and be merry, OK?
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Christmas is a time to eat, drink, and be merry.
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You eat, drink, be merry, and wait for the end.
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It can't be 'Happy Holidays' — it's got to be 'Merry Christmas.
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Candy canes will dance, soldiers will march, and everyone will be merry.
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The main message was wash your hands with soap and be merry.
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Everyone else left, but Christie and Mike stuck around to chat, laugh and be merry.
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So don't cheap out on seafood, be merry, and get your grandmother some lottery tickets.
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Does this mean that we should eat, drink, be merry, and forget about the future?
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The holiday season might be merry and bright, but it can also be hectic and expensive.
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Inside the 2000,000-seat venue are all kinds of places to eat, drink and be merry.
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If you want to join your startup peers to eat, drink and be merry, don't delay.
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John Legend and Chrissy Teigen are making sure their fans' Christmases will be merry and bright.
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Analysts, however, aren't as confident that the second half and holiday season will be merry and bright.
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Be merry this holiday season—and get a keg filled with something that's even better than beer.
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Follow these simple tips and you'll be able to eat, drink, be merry, and have glowing skin.
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Throughout most of recorded history, women were expected to eat, drink, and be merry without any raucous side effects.
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The holidays were basically invented so we could eat, be merry, and feel better about the coming dark and frigid months.
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The throwing up would last for seven straight days between two kids, and there would be no time to be merry.
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Until then, let's eat, drink, and be merry, for in just a few days time there is no more Thrones (season 7).
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Drink and be merry, but keep your phone and "accessories" in your pants while doing so Sexting while drunk is a precarious endeavor.
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"I love entertaining during the holidays as my guests are ready to eat, drink and be merry," the Ladies of London star tells PEOPLE.
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It unites the best from both television and film and allows these high-profile stars to eat, drink, and be merry as they win awards.
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So it looks like in these uncertain times for the markets and economy, eat, drink and be merry is one way for investors to profit.
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Each one would take to the streets, supporting local businesses on their way to Treme, and once they arrived everyone would mingle, dance, and be merry.
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Tempos, moods and sometimes lyrics changed from night to night; at different shows, a song like "Tell Me, Momma" could be merry, surly, imploring or exultant.
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They are Chinese or Koreans, mostly, a horde in search of the perfect place to drink, eat and be merry after a day of fun in the water.
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East London is trendier than it has ever been, with more places for the wealthy to eat, drink and be merry, and fewer places not-wealthy people can afford.
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You can still eat, drink, and be merry, but you can do all of this with the knowledge that you've saved on something you can use all the time.
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Two of those things kind of go hand in hand, and if you are going to be merry, you might as well get there drinking something that you love (responsibly).
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"This is the holiday season and we try to do something nice and light, and we try to be merry, like Merry Christmas," she told local newspaper Japan Times last week.
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It's the time of year to drink and be merry - and whether you like red, white, or bubbles, finding the right one for your taste buds and your budget can be a challenge.
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Christmas carols and classic movies will try to convince you that the holidays are a time to be merry, thankful, and full of love and light, and anything other than that is dysfunctional.
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He is forever the guy with his face pressed against the glass, watching the people he wants to be friends with eat, drink and be merry in clubs they won't let him into.
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While that's bad news for us humans, it's actually good news for cod, who now have plenty more space to swim and be merry in some of the most pristine and untouched waters on earth.
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The crew keeps a decent variety of spirits on site, but only have access to them on Saturday evenings during which they eat, drink, and be merry to celebrate the end of another week at the base.
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Because every time I start anything, I think, &aposThis time I&aposm going to be like Judi Dench, and it will all be lovely, it will be merry and bright, the Quaker will come out in me.
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CHRISTMAS IN THE GARDEN & TREE LIGHTING (Sunday) Here's one day that will be merry and bright: As part of this celebration at the Queens Botanical Garden, children will make lanterns that they will use to light a 5 p.m.
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In the Disney film (only the second full-length animated film made by the company), Pinocchio goes to "Pleasure Island," a place where boys can eat, drink, and be merry to their heart's content… until they are turned into labor donkeys.
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Every year the hottest stars, most talented musicians and their significant others (if they can score a plus one) sit down to eat, be merry and watch a star-studded slate of intimate performances hosted by iconic hitmaker Clive Davis.
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When: Friday, December 9, 6–9 pm Where: Regeneration Furniture (38 Renwick Street, Soho, Manhattan) It may feel tough to be merry as this year comes to a close, so a Midcentury Christmas celebration could be a good temporary antidote.
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Disney World is set up for two types of people: annual pass holders who come in groups to drink and be merry (see the "Adults who love Disney" section above), and families who have been planning their trip for months, even years.
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Maybe it's the stock market (which is starting to feel more like a bubble than it did even a few months ago), maybe it's eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we have a constitutional crisis/a nuclear war/Skynet kills us all.
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"Can it really be that the students of elite universities should only eat, drink and be merry," Zhang Shengye, a Peking University graduate, wrote in an open letter released on Sunday and signed by more than 60 supporters of the factory workers.
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Within his collection of life's human ailments and existential tonics, he details love's many symptoms: "But the symptoms of the mind of lovers are almost infinite, and so diverse that no art can comprehend them; though they be merry sometimes, and rapt beyond themselves for joy, yet most part, love is a plague, a torture, an hell, a bitter-sweet passion at last..."Love, both an agent of melancholy and its long-practiced treatment, is still studied as such a sickness; some psychologists look at love as a temporary insanity, largely driven by a complex cocktail of hormones, neurobiological processes, and social conditioning.
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OCLC 8298701. 1950 You Were There – Eat, drink, and be merry, for yesterday you died. London: Michael Joseph. OCLC 154216656.
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To-night is ripe for pleasure, and indeed, I would be merry as beseems a host Who finds a gracious and unlooked-for guest Waiting to greet him.
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Dauphinais, Jennifer. "Maya your days be merry", New Haven Advocate, December 19, 2002. Retrieved August 27, 2009 from the Internet Archive store of June 13, 2003."Archive: Diary", stuckism.com.
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In the winter of 2011, Dominic Ziegler suffered a series of strokes. He died in January, 2012. The Crux's 2012 album, Be Merry, is dedicated to Ziegler and his family.
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They lived each day as if it would be the last on earth. Eat, drink and be merry because tomorrow might not come. In 1943 Britain was either partying or stoically working. No one complained.
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Examples include "Kant Wynn" (Can't Win), "Overa Cheever" (Over Achiever), "Anne Teak" (Antique), "Liv Anlern" (Live and Learn), "Bob N. Frapples" (Bobbing For Apples), and "E. Trink and Bea Meri" (Eat, Drink, and Be Merry).
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Eckelsheim is characterized by winegrowing, at which many family businesses have already been working for many generations. At the Sommer-Inn, winemakers, clubs or others take turns inviting visitors to eat, drink and be merry.
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Bin means 'father' or 'source of all light'. It also stands for the sun itself. Binu is also a modified or evolutionary form of the name Vinod, or Vinodam, which means 'happy' or 'merry' in Sanskrit. Thus, the meaning of Binu can be 'merry man'.
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"'" ("We all want to be merry", freely: "Rejoice we all this Easter-tide!") is a German Easter hymn, with a text mostly by Cyriakus Schneegass, who added to an older first stanza, and a 1544 tune by the Bohemian Brethren. It was published in Wittenberg in 1573.
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Laugh and Be Merry is a poem written by the English poet John Masefield. In this poem, the poet wants us to be cheerful and enjoy our life to the fullest. He also reminds us that we are like a temporary guest who stays in a beautiful inn for a while.
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Founded by Aristippus of Cyrene, Cyrenaics supported immediate gratification or pleasure. "Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die." Even fleeting desires should be indulged, for fear the opportunity should be forever lost. There was little to no concern with the future, the present dominating in the pursuit of immediate pleasure.
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Open-air performance at the Zoppot Waldoper, near Danzig, July 1912 A crowd of villagers is celebrating at the church fair ("Let's rejoice and be merry"). Among them are Mařenka and Jeník. Mařenka is unhappy because her parents want her to marry someone she has never met. They will try to force her into this, she says.
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Major, p. 19. In 1598, there was a reference to cricket in an Italian-English dictionary by Giovanni Florio. His definition of the word was: "to make a noise as a cricket, to play cricket-a- wicket, and be merry". Florio is the first writer known to have defined cricket in terms of both an insect and a game.
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Lutèce was a French restaurant in Manhattan that operated for more than 40 years before closing in early 2004. It once had a satellite restaurant on the Las Vegas Strip.Eat and Be Merry; On Saturday 2 Classics Die It was famous for its Alsatian onion tart and a sauteed foie gras with dark chocolate sauce and bitter orange marmalade."Au Revoir, Lutèce" . Gothamist.
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Dauphinais, Jennifer. "Maya your days be merry", New Haven Advocate, December 19, 2002. Retrieved August 27, 2009 from the Internet Archive store of June 13, 2003. In 2003, Richards co-produced Shooting at the Moon, a short film premiering at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival. In 2008, the film made its London premiere at Horse Hospital during its FLIXATION Underground Cinema Club event.
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However, Morton recovered.HMC Mar & Kellie, vol. 1 (London, 1904), p. 83. Morrton offended decorum at court at the time of the death of James VI and I in April 1625, when the body of the king was bought from Theobalds it was noticed that the Earls of Morton and Roxburghe were not in attendance, but had gone to be "merry" at More Park with Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford.
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13-30, in Fritz Allhoff and Dave Monroe, eds, Food & Philosophy: Eat, think, and be merry, Malden (MA, USA): Blackwell Publishing, 2007 While Epicurus sought moderation at meals, he was also not averse to moderation in moderation, that is, to occasional luxury. Called "The Garden" for being based in what would have been a kitchen garden, his community also became known for its feasts of the twentieth (of the Greek month).
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Most members of The Crux left the band after the release of Be Merry, leaving only Josh and Kalei as active members. They added Travis Hendrix (clarinet, harmonica), Ben Weiner (percussion), Annie Cilley (fiddle, saxophone), and Josh Jackson (upright bass, cornet). All of these musicians are known from their work in the Church Marching Band. The new arrangement immediately began working on a collaborative musical play with North Bay performing artists The Imaginists Theatre Collective and Layla Musselwhite.
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Carlo lost Forlì and Gradara, and was subsequently defeated at Zagonara. Again taken prisoner, he was housed as a guest by the Duke of Milan Filippo Maria, and later freed without harm. The Carlo Malatesta who married Vittoria Colonna, niece of Pope Martin V, was the son of Malatesta dei Sonetti who was lord of Pesaro. Guillaume Du Fay's Ballade "Resvellies Vous" (Awake and be merry) was written for the marriage of this younger Carlo in 1423.
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Subsequently, he freelanced with Hildesheimer Presse, taz Bremen and pursued journalistic projects with radio stations such as NDR Hannover and Radio Bremen. Over his career, Engelke has contributed essays, commentaries, novels and poetry to more than 100 anthologies. Between 1975 and 2011 Engelke worked as primary school teacher in Esterwegen/Emsland. From 1981 to 1988 he coordinated the Surwolder Literaturgespräche, a platform for painters, journalists, playwrights, authors and musicians to mix and mingle, attend workshops, perform and be merry.
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Retired after the 1983 racing season, Erins Isle stood at stud, meeting with some success as a sire. Among his offspring, in 1990 daughter Laugh And Be Merry won the Grade I Flower Bowl Invitational Handicap and son Rowdy Irishman won the 1997 Breeders' Cup Steeplechase. Erins Isle was also the damsire of Soldier of Fortune whose wins included the 2008 Irish Derby Stakes and Coronation Cup. His daughter Erin's Irish Lass, is the grand dam of Affluent.
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Displayed at Livrustkammaren To dare any possible assassins, the King went out into an open box facing the opera stage. And after roughly ten minutes he said “this would have been an opportunity to shoot. Come, let us go down. The ball seems to be merry and bright.” The King with Baron Hans Henrik von Essen by his right arm went around the theatre once and then into the foyer where they met Captain Carl Fredrik Pollet.
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The following motto, not very classical, but appropriate > enough, 'Be Merry and Wise' - forms the centre of the frontispiece. The > boxes are capable of containing 30 persons each. ... The house when there is > no riding is capable of containing at least 1,800 or 2,000 persons.Boston > Intelligencer & Evening Gazette; Date: 07-03-1819; p.2. "In the yard back of Washington Gardens" were auctioned "a valuable flock of sheep" in 1814.Boston Gazette; Date: 10-31-1814; p.3.
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Soon after their return to the United States, Clement and Dorothy moved to New York City to accommodate Dorothy's recording contract with MGM records. In 1956, Renzi was given a temporary workspace at New York's Sculpture Center. Clement offered a large tapestry, Eat, Drink and Be Merry, for sale at the gallery at an audaciously high price, not fully wanting to part with it. When, to his surprise, the work was sold, Dorothy encouraged Clem to devote himself full- time to his sculpture.
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The etymology of Charvaka (Sanskrit: चार्वाक) is uncertain. Bhattacharya quotes the grammarian Hemacandra, to the effect that the word cārvāka is derived from the root , ‘to chew’ : “A Cārvāka chews the self (carvatyātmānaṃ cārvākaḥ). Hemacandra refers to his own grammatical work, Uṇādisūtra 37, which runs as follows: mavāka-śyāmāka-vārtāka-jyontāka-gūvāka-bhadrākādayaḥ. Each of these words ends with the āka suffix and is formed irregularly.” This may also allude to the philosophy's hedonistic precepts of "eat, drink, and be merry".
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When he was a teenager, he slept with his Bible and prayed to become a singer. His interest in jazz began at around age five when his family played Bing Crosby's White Christmas album. The first time his family noticed his singing talent was during the Christmas holidays, when Bublé was 13 years old, and they heard him powerfully sing the phrase "May your days be merry and bright" when the family was singing to the song "White Christmas" on a car ride.
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The community derived its name Obazu or calabash of fish, from the huge fish trade that flourished there during the pre-colonial era. Obazu was a fish port and the founders were great fish merchants, making great wealth from the trade. Such was prominence the business brought that they dedicated a particular day to fish. That day is one to be merry, eat giant fish and savour not just its nourishment but also the fame that has come with it.
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Cicero sent him to Athens to study as a disciple of the peripatetic philosopher Kratippos in 48 BC, but he used this absence from "his father's vigilant eye" to "eat, drink and be merry."Haskell, H.J.: This was Cicero (1964) pp. 103–04 After his father's murder, Marcus joined the army of the Liberatores but was later pardoned by Augustus. Augustus' bad conscience for having put Cicero on the proscription list during the Second Triumvirate led him to aid considerably Marcus Minor's career.
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Rejoice and Be Merry!: Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square featuring The King's Singers was recorded during the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's 2007 Christmas shows in the LDS Conference Center with special guests The King's Singers. The album was released on September 30, 2008 and a concert DVD was released on October 21, 2008. The CD features both a cappella and accompanied songs by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square featuring The King's Singers.
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Bobbie and Skinner again directed and choreographed. The cast featured James Clow as Bob Mara Davi as Judy , Melissa Errico as Betty Tony Yazbeck as Phil, David Ogden Stiers as General Waverly and Ruth Williamson as Martha Jones, Kenneth. "Williamson, Ogden Stiers, Errico, Yazbeck Will Be Merry and Bright in Broadway's White Christmas", playbill.com, September 29, 2009 This production also had a U.S. national tour, starting in Omaha, Nebraska, on November 1, 2009 and ending in Kansas City, Missouri, on January 5, 2010.
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Dining together during carnival night in Venice, and to help assuage her guilt, Astaire declares: "Let's eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we have to face him," which serves as the cue for the music of "The Piccolino", the film's big production number. A gondola parade is followed by the entry of a dancing chorus who perform a series of ballroom poses and rippling-pattern routines choroeographed by Hermes Pan. Berlin, who lavished a great deal of effort on the songMueller (1986), p.
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The 1932-34 ones are dated on the front cover. 1935 with 'Lucky Dip 6d'; 1936 with 'Never Lets You Down'; 1937 with 'Lets All Be Merry' are only dated on the title page. 1938 with 'Out For Fun Again' and 1939 with 'Rattling Good!' on the cover are undated. The 1939 Annual is usually found missing a lot of the pages: page 48 had a Donkey & Sergeant cutout; pages 73–80 had a 'Punch & Judy' cut-out & play and page 98 a Racing Car cutout.
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Chando and Radha become close friends; Chando teaches Radha how to be a traditional wife and soon Radha begins to see her as an elder sister as she did not have a female figure to teacher her these things. Chando swallows the jealousy of Radha and Kishan's relationship, continuing to be merry and serving them. Meanwhile, Deepak searches for Chando's husband and begins to fall in love with her for her simple and innocent nature. Kishan becomes jealous of this, especially when Deepak shares with him that he plans to confess and propose soon.
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His funeral at Mickleham near Dorking, Surrey featured a motor lorry driven by the aviator James Radley instead of a hearse, the flat bed draped in purple cloth: the grave was lined with pink azaleas, coloured flowers only were requested and no bells were tolled. The letter Gilmour had left outlining his wishes for his funeral ended "I want every one to be merry and bright, for I don't believe in moaning" He was buried at St. Michael's Churchyard, Mickleham with his parents David (1842–1907) and Margaret (1849–1910).
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The Diploids and Other Flights of Fancy (Avon, 1962), her first short story collection, includes "The Diploids" (a.k.a. "Six Fingers"), "Feedback", "Pictures Don't Lie", "Incommunicado", "The Snow Ball Effect", "Defense Mechanism" and "And Be Merry" (a.k.a. "The Pyramid in the Desert"). Her second collection, The Trouble with You Earth People (Donning/Starblaze, 1980) contains "The Trouble with You Earth People", "The Gambling Hell and the Sinful Girl", "Syndrome Johnny", "Trouble with Treaties" (with Tom Condit), "The Origin of the Species", "Collision Orbit", "The Fittest", "These Truths", "Contagion", "Brain Wipe" and her Nebula Award- winning "The Missing Man".
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He joined the army of Pompey in 49 BC and after Pompey's defeat at Pharsalus 48 BC, he was pardoned by Caesar. Cicero sent him to Athens to study as a disciple of the peripatetic philosopher Kratippos in 48 BC, but he used this absence from "his father's vigilant eye" to "eat, drink and be merry." After Cicero's death he joined the army of the Liberatores but was later pardoned by Augustus. Augustus's bad conscience for not having objected to Cicero's being put on the proscription list during the Second Triumvirate led him to aid considerably Marcus Minor's career.
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Chilton also collaborated with authors Greta and Janet Podleski as publisher to many best selling cookbooks, including Looneyspoons, Crazy Plates and Eat, Shrink and Be Merry!. Chilton left his role in the publishing industry in 2007, primarily due to the guilt of not contributing to the development of the industry, while taking a third of all profits. In 2011, Chilton released a sequel to The Wealthy Barber in response to the 2008 financial crisis, titled The Wealthy Barber Returns. The novel eliminates the use of narrative, instead opting for his own advice to provide guidance to readers, and help them recover financially.
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She reached the final turn in third place but dropped back in the straight and finished twelfth of the fifteen runners behind the Australian Better Loosen Up. Before the race she had been acquired by the Japanese owner Yoshio Asakawa. Petite Ile was widely expected to be named American Champion Female Turf Horse at the Eclipse Awards for 1990 but lost out to Laugh and Be Merry despite receiving more votes. According to the Daily Racing Form the result was due to a quirk of the bloc voting system which had produced "the worst of all scenarios".
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According to O'Neill, she became obsessed with the idea of the cherubic characters, to the point that she had dreams about them: "I thought about the Kewpies so much that I had a dream about them where they were all doing acrobatic pranks on the coverlet of my bed. One sat in my hand." She described them as "a sort of little round fairy whose one idea is to teach people to be merry and kind at the same time". The Kewpie characters made their debut in comic strip form in 1909 in an issue of Ladies' Home Journal.
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Several of his contemporaries wrote scornfully of Jordan. The biographer William Winstanley ranks him with John Tatham as "indulging his Muse more to vulgar fancies than the high-flying wits of those times" and Samuel Wesley in his Maggots (1685) calls Jordan's muse the inspirer of dullness. Later readers have been more appreciative. William Hazlitt credited Jordan with a greater share of poetical merit than most of his profession. Jordan's carpe diem-themed poem "Coronemus nos Rosis antequam marcescant", alternatively "Let us drink and be merry", was widely anthologised in the early 20th century,Anthologies include The Book of Elizabethan Verse, ed.
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May your voyage be merry aboard the S.S. Grimm! Episode 14. "Iron John" (Released December 4) When a young, disobedient prince recklessly puts several lives in danger by releasing a sadistic, metal monster of a man named Iron John (for the sake of a toy) and gets rewarded, Grimm decides it's time this story got set to "Terminator" mode! Follow Iron John and Prince Connor as they journey through the local town, Iron John's pond hideout, Prince Connor's massive castle abode, Iron John's "Midas pool", a kingdom that neighbors Prince Connor's, the old king's tournament, and Prince Connor's wedding.
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That, he declared, was the source of the Nile. On 14 November 1770 he reached Gish Abay, the source of the Lesser Abay. When they reached the springs at Gish, James Bruce determined to be merry, picked up a half coconut shell he used as a drinking cup. Filling it from the spring he obliged Strates to drink a toast to "His Majesty King George III and a long line of princes" and another to "Catherine, Empress of all the Russians" – this last was a gesture to Strates' Greek origin, since Catherine the Great was just then at war with the Turks in the Aegean Sea.
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This allows the Music Department's continued commitment to providing the choristers with the widest possible musical education. They have a considerable catalogue of recordings: all three choirs recorded a disc of their commissions – Omnes Sancti – in St Mary's Church, Wellingborough in July 2010; in 2011 all three choirs recorded their fourth CD of Christmas carols, Carol of Joy, and in 2012 the girls' released Notre Père, featuring French music for upper voices. In April 2014 they joined the Northampton Bach Choir to record their fifth new carol disc Be Merry! featuring a wide selection of sacred and secular carols with piano accompaniment from the United States and Canada.
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Below the arch, a grand stairway leads down to the first level, and to the Hall of Merriment. The hall is named due to the four whimsical carvings of men representing "Eat, drink and be merry," with the fourth figure taking a pinch of snuff. The hall today is the site of the Carl and Carolyn Renfro Gallery that feature replicas of the twelve statues entered in a competition to depict the Pioneer Woman. Marland Mansion Ballroom Marland Mansion Loggia To the left of the hall is the service area of the house including the main kitchen where a majority of the cooking was done, the staff dining room and pantry.
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Pantagruelisme is an "eat, drink and be merry" philosophy, which led his books into disfavor with the church but simultaneously brought them popular success and the admiration of later critics for their focus on the body. This first book, critical of the existing monastic and educational system, contains the first known occurrence in French of the words encyclopédie, caballe, progrès and utopie among others.Original context (fr / en) Despite the book's popularity, both it and the subsequent prequel book (1534) about the life and exploits of Pantagruel's father Gargantua were condemned by the "Sorbonne" in 1543 and the Roman Catholic Church in 1545. Rabelais taught medicine at Montpellier in 1534 and again in 1539.
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The circumstances of his execution are a source of debate: whilst some accounts state that the executioner had great difficulty severing the head, others claim that this is apocryphal and that it took only one blow. Afterwards, his head was set on a spike on London Bridge. Hall said of Cromwell's downfall, > Many lamented but more rejoiced, and specially such as either had been > religious men, or favoured religious persons; for they banqueted and > triumphed together that night, many wishing that that day had been seven > years before; and some fearing lest he should escape, although he were > imprisoned, could not be merry. Others who knew nothing but truth by him > both lamented him and heartily prayed for him.
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Typically in these stories, Buonamico uses his wits to play tricks on his friends and associates: convincing Calandrino that a stone he possesses (heliotrope) confers invisibility (VIII/3), stealing a pig from Calandrino (VIII, 6), convincing the physician Master Simone of an opportunity to ally himself with the devil (VIII, 9), convincing Calandrino that he has become pregnant (IX, 3), convincing Calandrino that a particular scroll can cause a woman to fall in love with him (IX, 5). Throughout the stories, Buonamico is frequently depicted at work painting in the houses of notable gentlemen in Florence but eager to take time to eat, drink and be merry. Giorgio Vasari includes a biography of Buonamico in his Lives, in which he tells several anecdotes about his comic escapades.
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We can hide our provisions and run > into the woods; then you will starve for wronging your friends. Why are you > jealous of us? We are unarmed, and willing to give you what you ask, if you > come in a friendly manner, and not so simple as not to know that is it much > better to eat good meat, sleep comfortably, live quietly with my wives and > children, laugh and be merry with the English, and trade for their copper > and hatchets, than to run away from them, and to lie cold in the wood, feed > on acorns, roots and such trash, and be so hunted that I can neither eat nor > sleep... Take away your guns and swords, the cause of all our jealousy, or > you my all die in the same manner.
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"Laughing Song" is a lyric poem, written in three stanzas of four-beat lines rhyming aabb. The title of this poem and its rhyme scheme is very appropriate for the message that Blake is trying to convey. The title in itself states that this is a song about laughter, and the three stanzas give this impression, especially in the final line of the second stanza: "With their sweet round mouths sing 'Ha, Ha, He.' ", and the final line of the third stanza: "To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha, Ha, He.' " Using words like "sing" and "chorus" for emphasis, Blake sets out to lure readers to the happiness of prelapsarian times, when things were unspoiled and innocent. Blake is inviting the readers to take part in the celebration; after all nature and all the people have begun to laugh and be merry, he wants all to come join in the song.
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Mosaic (220–250 AD) from El Djem, Tunisia (Roman Africa), with the Latin caption "Silence! Let the bulls sleep" (Silentiu[m] dormiant tauri) and the convivial banter of five banqueters (possibly gladiators) represented as if in speech balloons: \- "We're going to be naked" ([N]os nudi [f]iemus) \- "We're here to drink" (Bibere venimus) \- "you're all talking a lot" (Ia[m] multu[m] loquimini) \- "We may get called away" (Avocemur) \- "We're having three [glasses]." (Nos tres tenemus) The scene may convey a proverbial expression equivalent to both "Let sleeping dogs lie" and "Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may die"Richard Brilliant, "Scenic Representations," in Age of Spirituality: Late Antique and Early Christian Art, Third to Seventh Century (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1979), pp. 96–97. Latin and Greek were the official languages of the Roman Empire, but other languages were important regionally.
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The men will all run after her, so pretty and so graceful And leave me here lamenting, lamenting all alone. All 'round my hat I will wear a green willow All 'round my hat for a twelve month and a day If anybody asks me the reason why I wear it It's all because my true love is far, far away. A variation of this had the following verse stanza: My love she was fair, and my love she was kind And cruel the judge and jury that sentenced her away For thieving was a thing that she never was inclined to They sent my love across the sea ten thousand miles away. A version popularized by Steeleye Span used the traditional chorus (shown above) and these verse stanzas (from Farewell He): Fare thee well cold winter and fare thee well cold frost Nothing have I gained but my own true love I've lost I'll sing and I'll be merry when occasion I do see He's a false deluding young man, let him go, farewell he.
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The boar's head in hand bring I, (Or: The boar's head in hand bear I,) Bedeck'd with bays and rosemary. And I pray you, my masters, be merry (Or: And I pray you, my masters, merry be) Quot estis in convivio (Translation: As many as are in the feast) CHORUS Caput apri defero (Translation: The boar's head I bear) Reddens laudes Domino (Translation: Giving praises to the Lord) The boar's head, as I understand, Is the rarest dish in all this land, Which thus bedeck'd with a gay garland Let us servire cantico. (Translation: Let us serve with a song) CHORUS Our steward hath provided this In honour of the King of Bliss; Which on this day to be servèd is In Reginensi atrio. (Translation: In the hall of Queen’s [College, Oxford]) CHORUS There is also an alternative version of the same song with lyrics modified to fit poultry being served, replacing "The boar's head in hand bring I" with "The fowl on the platter see", and "The boar's head, as I understand/Is the rarest dish in all this land" with "This large bird, as I understand/Is the finest dish in all this land".
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