They demen gladly to the badder end.

Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400): Canterbury Tales. The Squieres Tale. Line 10538.

And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.

Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400): Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 310.

How gladly would I meet

Mortality my sentence, and be earth

Insensible! how glad would lay me down

As in my mother's lap!

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book x. Line 775.