Merries

• Needles and pins, blankets and shins, when a man's married his sorrow begins (proverb)
  • when a mon merries his lute is all long: when a man marries (or makes merry, as below) his life is all gone

• marries

• merries: makes merry; is in high spirits; is mildly drunk

• merries: burries (in a graveyard?)

• merries: plays (his lute)?

• Merry Christmas → FW 003.05-06: scraggy isthmus