Occurs in Miltons Divorce, I. vii. in edd. of collected Wks. 1694, 1697, 1738, etc., where the original edd. of the treatise (1643, 1644, 1645) read cheerfulness.
1694. ed. Miltons Wks., Divorce, I. vii. There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasond
with cheerishnesse [1643 cherfulnes].