All 3 Uses of
melancholy
in
The Comedy of Errors
- when I am dull with care and melancholy
Scene 1.2 *melancholy = sad (perhaps depressed)
- Thou say'st his sports were hinder'd by thy brawls: Sweet recreation barr'd, what doth ensue But moody and dull melancholy,—Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair,—And, at her heels, a huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures and foes to life?†
Scene 5.1melancholy = a sad feeling or manner
- By this, I think, the dial points at five: Anon, I'm sure, the duke himself in person Comes this way to the melancholy vale; The place of death and sorry execution, Behind the ditches of the abbey here.†
Scene 5.1
Definition:
a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad