Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Merry ya kasance a halin yanzu ya shiga wasu ayyukan wallafe-wallafe. "Paulina", wani labari a cikin ayar, ya bayyana a kusa da ƙarshen 1787. "Diversity", wani bayani mai zurfi, a shekara mai zuwa kuma, a 1789, "Ramuwa Mai Girma", wani wasan kwaikwayo, wanda a cikin mãkirci, hali, da kuma halin da ake ciki shine "Macbeth". Ba a taɓa yin wasan kwaikwayo ba. A farkon wannan shekarar ya rubuta waka don dawo da sarki wanda Mrs. Siddons ta karanta a ranar 21 ga Afrilu. Amma abubuwan da suka faru a ranar 14 ga Yuli
a Paris ya ba da sabon shugabanci ga ƙarfinsa, kuma ya canza sauran rayuwarsa. Merry bai yi hukunci da juyin juya halin Faransa ba, amma ya yi hukunci da komai da shi; abokansa, da kansa, adabi, fasaha, duk dangantakar jama'a da zamantakewa. Nan da nan ya tafi Paris, ya ziyarci Majalisar, inda ya ga "wasu rikice-rikice, amma duk daga himma", kuma a dawowarsa ya buga "Laurel na Liberty". Walpole ya yi ba'a da waƙar, wanda ke cike da farin ciki a kan "hawaye na gossamery" da kuma "oceansan teku". A shekara ta 1790, Merry ya gabatar da kansa a matsayin dan takara don laureateship, amma ka'idodinsa, tuni maganar garin, ya sa takararsa ta zama ba ta da bege; kuma kodayake "Duniya" ta motsa duwatsu a madadinsa, kotun ta kasance ga Pye. A lokacin rani na 1791 ya sake kasancewa a birnin Paris, ya gabatar da Majalisar a kan "Nature of a Free Government", kuma ya ci gaba da saninsa da mai zane-zane David. A ranar 14 ga Yuli an yi waƙar sa a kan "Fall of the Bastille" a wani taro a cikin Strand na "masu kirki na Ingilishi 1,500", masu tausaya wa juyin juya halin Faransa. Watanni uku da suka gabata "Lorenzo", bala'i, ya sami ɗan gajeren nasara a Covent Garden, kuma a watan Agusta 1791 ya auri sanannen 'yar wasan kwaikwayo Ann Brunton.