All iolly prelates, worthie rule to beare, Who ever them envie: yet spite bites neare.
With whom all ioy and iolly meriment Is also deaded, and in dolour drent**.
Lalus a Iolly youthfull Lad, With Cleon, no lesse crown'd With vertues; both their beings had On the Elizian ground.
Thy sheepe quoth she cannot be leane, That haue a iolly shepheards swayne, 80 the which can pipe so well.
We then our selues aduant through hope of purchase here, Amaine say we, ye iolly gallant or you shall buie it deere.
Eke straightway forth for wine the steward call I then, With fiery spice enough therein I drinke vnto my men, And then euen with a woord our lime pot prest to fall, This iolly gallant we clap aboord and enter him withall.
The Scholler as playnely hee had applied his booke, and earnestly harkned his readings, so he simply meant to be a faythfull Louer and deuout requirant to this Iolly dame, that had vowed his Deuotion and promised Pilgrimage to an other Saynct.
And yet for all these Iolly pastimes inuented by this Widdow, to deceyue the poore Scholler, she scaped not free from his Logike rules, not saife from his Philosophy.
Now strike your sailes ye iolly Mariners, 2 For we be come vnto a quiet rode, Where we must land some of our passengers, 4 And light this wearie vessell of her lode.
But all in vaine, his woman was too wise, 2 Euer to come into his clouch againe, And he too simple euer to surprise 4 The iolly Paridell, for all his paine.
Now for I know the Britaine Richmond aymes At yong Elizabeth my brothers daughter, And by that knot lookes proudly on the Crowne, To her go I, a iolly thriuing wooer.
Giue me thy hand, Through Alexandria make a iolly March, Beare our hackt Targets, like the men that owe them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "iolly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
