well-a-day

Oh, well-a-day and lack-a-day, the whirligig of time and fortune, the topsyturviness of luck, the wooden shoe going up and the polished heel descending a French gunboat, a conquered island kingdom of

THE PRINCESS 2010

Ah! well-a-day! woe to Dardania for the wailings wrung from it by the steeds that bought his minion Ganymede for Zeus.

Orestes 2008

Endymion : 'Ah! well-a-day, Why should our young Endymion pine away!'

Archive 2008-09-01 Hermes 2008

Ah! well-a-day! woe to Dardania for the wailings wrung from it by the steeds that bought his minion Ganymede for Zeus.

Orestes 2008

O well-a-day, well-a-day! said the good old man, I did not expect this! —

Pamela 2006

Englishman — and, in the third and last place, well-a-day!

Rob Roy 2005

O well-a-day, Mistress Ford! having an honest man to your husband, to give him such cause of suspicion!

The Merry Wives of Windsor 2004

Alas, poor souls, it grieved my heart to hear what pitiful cries they made to us to help them, when, well-a-day, we could scarce help ourselves.

Pericles, Prince of Tyre 2004

“Ah! well-a-day, dearest lady, if that were the worst,” said Janet sadly; while the lady called to the pedlar, “Good fellow, step forward — undo thy pack; if thou hast good wares, chance has sent thee hither for my convenience and thy profit.”

Kenilworth 2004

BELVOIR: Ah well-a-day for the poor gentlemen in gilt coaches.

The Beau Defeated: or, The Lucky Younger Brother 1999