spleen,

Says the grave peevish Saint, in a fit of the spleen,

The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

That shall his downfall speed, helped by the spleen,

'A Comedy of Errors' in Seven Acts

Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your languid spleen,

Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs 1873

Yea, have ye not heard that the fly hath her spleen,

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873

Victual, and last their fierceness and great spleen,

Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. Jean Ingelow 1858

The thrice-turned cud of wrath, and cooked his spleen,

The Princess Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 1850

Which shows that good zeal may be founded in spleen,

The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 Jonathan Swift 1706

Has killed with venomed tooth, enflamed with spleen,

Orlando Furioso Lodovico Ariosto 1503

"The third of the companions,/that he's a man of spleen,

The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original George Henry Needler 1914

"Some in fashion's tontine disperse all their spleen,

The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806