Hold thy desperate hand:
Art thou a man? thy form cries out thou art:
Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote
The unreasonable fury of a beast:
Unseemly woman in a seeming man!
– William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, Act 3, Scene 3. Exhorting a suicidal Romeo to man up, Friar Laurence tells him that his tears make him look womanish. Romeo has reacted to his banishment from Verona by throwing himself to the floor weeping, then drawing his sword to kill himself. Rather than be happy with a sentence less than death, Romeo descends into melodramatic behavior wailing that his banishment is worse than death.