Melancholy. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Melancholy


I am as melancholy as a gib cat. Shakespeare.—King Henry IV., Part I. Act I. Scene 2.	1
As melancholy as an unbraced drum. Mrs. Centlivre.—The Wonder, Act II. Scene 1.	2
Now, my young guest! methinks you are allycholly; I pray you, why is it? Shakespeare.—Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act IV. Scene 2. (The Host to Julia in Boy’s clothes.)	3
I can suck melancholy out of a song. Shakespeare.—As You Like It, Act II. Scene 5. (Jacques to Amiens.)	4
Pale melancholy sat retired. Collins.—The Passions, Line 57.	5
Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown; Fair science frown’d not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark’d him for her own. Gray.—Elegy, Verse 30.	6