All 5 Uses of
mirth
in
A Midsummer Night's Dream
- THESEUS Go, Philostrate, Stir up the Athenian youth to merriments; Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth; Turn melancholy forth to funerals— The pale companion is not for our pomp.†
Scene 1.1
- The wisest aunt, telling the saddest tale, Sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me; Then slip I from her bum, down topples she, And 'tailor' cries, and falls into a cough; And then the whole quire hold their hips and loffe, And waxen in their mirth, and neeze, and swear A merrier hour was never wasted there.†
Scene 2.1
- THESEUS Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.†
Scene 5.1
- Where is our usual manager of mirth?†
Scene 5.1 *
- 'A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus And his love Thisbe; very tragical mirth.'†
Scene 5.1
Definition:
fun and laughter