He is of a very melancholy disposition.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!

Boy, what sign is it when a man of great spirit grows melancholy?

I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs.

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 dreamt of unhappiness and waked herself with laughing.

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 dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.