melancholy vs woe

melancholy

noun
  • Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature. 

  • Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies. 

adj
  • Affected with great sadness or depression. 

woe

noun
  • Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness. 

  • A curse; a malediction. 

  • Calamity, trouble. 

How often have the words melancholy and woe occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )