Crossword-Solution: RISUS 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Then frolic, lordings, to fair Concord’s walls, Where we will pass the day in knightly sports, The night in dancing and in figured masks, And offer to God Risus all our sports [_Exeunt._] ACT II PROLOGUE Enter Ate as before.

And while they drank one to another, Byrrhena spake to me and said, from the first foundation of this city we have a custome to celebrate the festivall day of the god Risus, and to-morrow is the feast when as I pray you to bee present, to set out the same more honourably, and I would with all my heart that you could find or devise somewhat of your selfe, that might be in honour of so great a god.

For this day, which we celebrate once a yeare in honour of the god Risus, is alwaies renowned with some solemne novel, and the god doth continually accompany with the inventor therof, and wil not suffer that he should be sorrowfull, but pleasantly beare a joyfull face.

Cum ille rideret, quaero causam risus, et an non crederet Praesulis animum esse talem, qui tantum dare vellet; aut fortunam esse talem 30 ut tantam benignitatem ferre non posset; aut opus non esse dignum aliquo magnifico munere.

This 'milk plant,' with its acrid, viscid, and virulent juice, and a small remedial shrub growing by its side, probably gave rise to the island fable of the twin fountains; one killed the traveller by a kind of _risus Sardonicus_, unless he used the other by way of cure.