drollery

Shakespearean Definition:

Noun - the action of a droll, such as jesting

Frequency: 2

Here are all of the speeches where drollery shows up across the corpus:

Henry IV, Part 2

Glasses , glasses , is the only drinking . And for
thy walls , a pretty slight drollery , or the story of the
Prodigal or the German hunting in waterwork is
worth a thousand of these bed-hangers and these
fly-bitten tapestries . Let it be ten pound , if thou
canst . Come , an ’twere not for thy humors , there’s
not a better wench in England . Go wash thy face ,
and draw the action . Come , thou must not be in this
humor with me . Dost not know me ? Come , come . I
know thou wast set on to this .

The Tempest

A living drollery ! Now I will believe
That there are unicorns , that in Arabia
There is one tree , the phoenix’ throne , one phoenix
At this hour reigning there .