All 4 Uses of
melancholy
in
Twelfth Night
- Now the melancholy god protect thee; and the tailor make thy doublet of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is a very opal!†
Scene 2.4melancholy = a sad feeling or manner
- She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought; And with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.†
Scene 2.4
- Nay, I'll come; if I lose a scruple of this sport let me be boiled to death with melancholy.†
Scene 2.5
- he will smile upon her, which will now be so unsuitable to her disposition, being addicted to a melancholy as she is
Scene 2.5 *melancholy = sadness
Definition:
a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad