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melancholy
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Much Ado About Nothing
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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 2.1

melancholy = 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

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