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单词 to be merry and wise
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to be merry and wise
d. to be merry and wise: to be thoughtful without being solemn.
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a1516 H. Medwall Godely Interlude Fulgens ii. sig. g.iii Ye, thou art a maister mery man, Thou shall be wyse I wot nere whan.
a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) i. xviii. sig. D.vii It were good to make sure and be merry so, that we be wyse therewyth.]
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. ii. sig. Aiii Whan hasty witlesse myrth is mated weele, Good to be mery and wyse, they thynke and feele.
a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) i. i. sig. A.iiv Therefore an other sayd sawe doth men aduise, That they be together both mery and wise.
1613 F. Beaumont Knight of Burning Pestle v. sig. I3v Exhort your Souldiers to be merry and wise.
1680 M. Stevenson Wits Paraphras'd 48 I wou'd advise thee Be merry and wise.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 76 He knew how to be merry and wise.
1792 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 663 It's gude to be merry and wise, It's gude to be honest and true.
1848 A. Brontë Tenant of Wildfell Hall III. xiii. 264 I have learned to be merry and wise, to be more easy with myself and more indulgent to my neighbours.
1895 A. Austin In Veronica's Garden 87 O, 'tis merry and wise to go hand-in-hand With Nature, to profit Man.
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