merry-man

As long fives the merry-man, as the wretch for all the craft he can.

Collection of Scotch Proverbs Pappity Stampoy

‘Come here, master merry-man; thinkest thou that, as those are iron maces to full cloth, if they were some other dangerous adventure, that I have not shown resolution enough to undertake and finish it?

The Third Book. VI. Of a Wonderful Adventure, Achieved with Less Hazard Than Ever Any Other Knight Did Any, by the Valorous Don Quixote of the Mancha 1909

I was their excellent Rameau, their dear Rameau, their Rameau the mad, the impertinent, the lazy, the greedy, the merry-man, the lout.

Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. John Morley 1880

a general domestic, if this latter word may be allowed for a Bedawi Arab; and Salem the merry-man, short in stature, and drawing into the vale of years.

Byeways in Palestine James Finn