Merry Gentlemen facts
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"God rest you merry" is an archaic way of expressing good wishes, so the Christmas carol is "God rest you merry, gentlemen" not "God rest you, merry gentlemen"
Gentlemen should rest merry - not merry gentlemen should rest. There's a comma you don't sing in the Christmas carol "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen"
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William Shakespeare's comedy-themed plays included All's Well That Ends Well, As You Like It. Comedy of Errors, Cymbeline, Love's Labour Lost, Measure for Measure, Merchant of Venice, Merry Wives of Windsor, Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, Troilus and Cressida, Twelfth Night, Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Winter's Tale.
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A popular Christmas carol is actually "God rest ye merry, gentlemen" and not "God rest ye, merry gentlemen." There's a comma.
