Charm ache with air, and agony with words.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.

The weariest and most loathed worldly life

That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment

Can lay on nature, is a paradise

To what we fear of death.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.

Some things are of that nature as to make

One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.

John Bunyan (1628-1688): Pilgrim's Progress. The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim.