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Quotation from Pericles, Prince of Tyre by William Shakespeare
“The sad companion, dull-eyed melancholy, Be my so used a guest as not an hour In the day’s glorious walk or peaceful night, The tomb where grief should sleep, can breed me quiet”
Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Act I, Scene 2 (Project Gutenberg #1537)
Back in Tyre after discovering Antiochus's secret, Pericles cannot shake the dread that follows him.
Citation: "The sad companion, dull-eyed melancholy, Be my so used a guest as not an hour In the day’s glorious walk or peaceful night, The tomb where grief should sleep, can breed me quiet" — William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Act I, Scene 2 (Project Gutenberg #1537). (id pericles-q2)
