Occurs in Milton’s Divorce, I. vii. in edd. of collected Wks. 1694, 1697, 1738, etc., where the original edd. of the treatise (1643, 1644, 1645) read cheerfulness.

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1694.  ed. Milton’s Wks., Divorce, I. vii. There is no Christian duty that is not to be season’d … with cheerishnesse [1643 cherfulnes].

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