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Quotation from As You Like It by William Shakespeare
“it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects”
As You Like It, Act 4, Scene 1 (Project Gutenberg #1523)
Jaques distinguishes his melancholy from the scholar's, musician's, courtier's, soldier's, lawyer's, lady's and lover's, describing it like an apothecary's compound.
Citation: "it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects" — William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 4, Scene 1 (Project Gutenberg #1523). (id as-you-like-it-q7)
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