There many humours , four be your work foure humours, Blood, Flewme, Colera and Melencolia. then there be good humour to get rid of the four. 7. a. That quality of action, speech, or writing, which excites amusement; oddity, jocularity, facetiousness, comicality, fun. b. The faculty of perceiving what is ludicrous or amusing, or of expressing it in speech, writing, or other composition; jocose imagination or treatment of a subject. Distinguished from wit as being less purely intellectual, and as having a sympathetic quality in virtue of which it often becomes allied to pathos. 1682 tr Just so glad that there be laughter, it be the best medicine. OED