All 7 Uses of
melancholy
in
Love's Labour's Lost
- 'So it is, besieged with sable-coloured melancholy, I did commend the black-oppressing humour to the most wholesome physic of thy health-giving air; and, as I am a gentleman, betook myself to walk.†
Scene 1.1melancholy = a sad feeling or manner
- Boy, what sign is it when a man of great spirit grows melancholy?†
Scene 1.2
- How canst thou part sadness and melancholy, my tender juvenal?†
Scene 1.2
- By thy favour, sweet welkin, I must sigh in thy face: Most rude melancholy, valour gives thee place.†
Scene 3.1
- By heaven, I do love; and it hath taught me to rime, and to be melancholy; and here is part of my rhyme, and here my melancholy.†
Scene 4.3
- By heaven, I do love; and it hath taught me to rime, and to be melancholy; and here is part of my rhyme, and here my melancholy.†
Scene 4.3
- He made her melancholy, sad, and heavy; And so she died:
Scene 5.2 *melancholy = sad (perhaps depressed)
Definition:
a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad