All 3 Uses of
melancholy
in
Cyrano de Bergerac
- Cyrano listens to the lutes, one of which plays a merry, the other a melancholy, tune): Why, they play sad—then gay—then sad!†
Act 3melancholy = a sad feeling or manner
- At that word the very fiercest Spaniard of them all would gravely shut the carriage-door, and, with a gesture that a king might envy, make signal to his men to lower the muskets leveled at me;—then, with melancholy but withal very graceful dignity—his beaver held to the wind that the plumes might flutter bravely, he would bow low, saying to me, 'Pass on, Señorita!'†
Act 4
- ROXANE: What, melancholy—you?†
Act 5 *
Definition:
a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad