most jocund

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And I, most jocund, apt, and willingly,     To do you rest, a thousand deaths would die.

From Twelfth Night; or What You Will by Shakespeare, William

Milton passed the most jocund hours of his life in Gray's Inn, in which college Cleveland and the author of 'Hudibras' held the meetings of their club.

From A Book About Lawyers by Jeaffreson, John Cordy

But you can't hold much wassail on the juice of the elderberry; it ain't the most jocund stuff the world as fermented by Metta's mother.

From Ma Pettengill by Wilson, Harry Leon

I knew it: and Mutilia the most jocund.

From Sejanus: His Fall by Jonson, Ben

The joke and the jest went merrily round with the wine flagon; and he was for a time the best man who could start the most jocund theme.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Leighton, Alexander