Melʹancholy Jacques (1 syl.)
.So Jean Jacques Rousseau was called for his morbid sensibilities and unhappy spirit. (1712–1777.) The expression is from Shakespeare, As You Like It, ii. 1.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.