All 4 Uses of
lament
in
The Winter's Tale
- whose loss of his most precious queen and children are even now to be afresh lamented.
Scene 4.2 *lamented = grieved or mourned
- 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
- One of the prettiest touches of all, and that which angled for mine eyes,—caught the water, though not the fish,—was, when at the relation of the queen's death, with the manner how she came to it,—bravely confessed and lamented by the king,—how attentivenes wounded his daughter; till, from one sign of dolour to another, she did with an 'Alas!'†
Scene 5.2lamented = expressed grief or regret
- I, an old turtle, Will wing me to some wither'd bough, and there My mate, that's never to be found again, Lament till I am lost.†
Scene 5.3lament = express grief or regret
Definition:
to express grief or regret