happy as a lark vs merry as a cricket

happy as a lark

adj
  • Very happy (sometimes with the extra connotations of being carefree or unaware of grimmer realities). 

merry as a cricket

adj
  • Very merry or cheerful. 

How often have the words happy as a lark and merry as a cricket occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )