Careful Words

jolly (n.)

jolly (v.)

jolly (adv.)

jolly (adj.)

There was a jolly miller once,

Lived on the river Dee;

He worked and sung from morn till night:

No lark more blithe than he.

Isaac Bickerstaff (1735-1787): Love in a Village. Act i. Sc. 2.

"A jolly place," said he, "in times of old!

But something ails it now: the spot is cursed."

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Hart-leap Well. Part ii.