ETYMOLOGY
from joly, jolie (jolly) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…Wantoun and blyith, and euer geuin to sport,
And efter drink desyrous of comfort:
Iocund with Ioy, and Iolyous to Iaip,
With mockis and mowis of nature as the Aip.
And he that hes the nature of the fyre,
Is euer hait, in crabitnes, and Ire…”
From: Ane Treatise callit the Court of Venus
– John Rolland, 1575
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