Careful Words

humorous (adj.)

Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!

Thou little valiant, great in villany!

Thou ever strong upon the stronger side!

Thou Fortune's champion that dost never fight

But when her humorous ladyship is by

To teach thee safety.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King John. Act iii. Sc. 1.

  It is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.

A very beadle to a humorous sigh.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Love's Labour's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.