All 7 Uses of
melancholy
in
Much Ado About Nothing
- He is of a very melancholy disposition.
Scene 2.1 *melancholy = sad
- Then half Signior Benedick's tongue in Count John's mouth, and half Count John's melancholy in Signior Benedick's face,— BEATRICE.†
Scene 2.1melancholy = a sad feeling or manner
- Do, do: he'll but break a comparison or two on me; which, peradventure not marked or not laughed at, strikes him into melancholy; and then there's a partridge wing saved, for the fool will eat no supper that night.†
Scene 2.1
- I found him here as melancholy as a lodge in a warren.†
Scene 2.1
- There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then, for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamed of unhappiness and waked herself with laughing.†
Scene 2.1
- The greatest note of it is his melancholy.†
Scene 3.2
- We have been up and down to seek thee; for we are high-proof melancholy, and would fain have it beaten away.†
Scene 5.1
Definition:
a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad