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Some of the words he puts in Thomas Mendip's mouth sound like Hamlet in the Forest of Arden, or a most unmelancholy Jaques.

From Time Magazine Archive

Propt on this "bank of amaranth and moly," Beneath the shade of boughs unmelancholy, I meditate on Æstas and on Hymen!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 7, 1893 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir

I played something from Chaminade, as her fancies are always airy and agreeable and unmelancholy.

From The Princess Elopes by MacGrath, Harold