Both Uses
doleful
in
The Winter's Tale
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- I love a ballad but even too well, if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably.
Scene 4.4 *doleful = full of sadness
- Here's one to a very doleful tune.†
Scene 4.4doleful = expressing or causing sadness
Definitions:
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(1)
(doleful) expressing or causing sadness
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)