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William Shakespeare1564–1616

Where the bee sucks, there suck I:
In a cowslip’s bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bat’s back I do fly
After summer merrily.
Merrily, merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

William Shakespeare on happiness

The Tempest (c. 1611), Act V, Scene I, spoken by Ariel

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