"Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see 't, But only melancholy, Oh, sweetest melancholy!"
— Melancholy

January 1, 1970

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Dr. Strode, Song in Praise of Melancholy, as given in Malone's Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Manuscript No. 21; it appears in Dr. Strode's play, The Floating Island, attributed to Fletcher, who inserted it in The Nice Valour, Act III, scene 3, in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 505