Chapter MATTER to MELROSE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

I can suck melancholy out of a song.

Shakespeare.—As You Like it, Act II. Scene 5. (Jaques to Amiens.)

Pale melancholy sat retired.

Collins.—The Passions, Line 57.

Here rests his head upon the lap of earth,
A youth to fortune and to fame unknown:
Fair science frown’d not on his humble birth,
And Melancholy mark’d him for her own.

Gray.—Elegy, Verse 30.

MELROSE.—And he a solemn sacred plight,
Did to St. Bride of Douglas make,
That he a pilgrimage would take
To Melrose Abbey—

Scott.—Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto VI. Verse 27.

If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright,
Go visit it by the pale moonlight;
For the gay beams of lightsome day,
Gild, but to flout, the ruins grey.

Ibid.—Canto II. Verse 1.