O fellow, come, the song we had last night: Mark it, Cesario; it is old and plain: The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence... William Shakspere: A Biography - Page 203by Charles Knight - 1843 - 542 pagesFull view - About this book
| British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...true and plain ; The (piasters and the knitters in tue son, And the Tree maids that weave their thrend with bones, Do use to chant it : it is silly sooth,...dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age. Shalisp. Tftlfth Xisht. T*AR in the windings of a vale. Fast by a sheltering wood, The safe retreat... | |
| Henry Headley - English poetry - 1810 - 236 pages
...been thy conqueror." LLWEN AND GYNETH. O fellow, come, the song we had last night, Mark it, Cesario, it is old and plain, The spinsters and the knitters...weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it. <HAKSPEABB. LLWEN. " \J MY troubled soul, I see nought save the hollowbeating wave ; the cold lumiuary... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1810 - 440 pages
...Re-enter CURIO, and Clown. Duke. O fellow, come, the song we had last night : — Mark it, Cesario ; it is old, and plain : The spinsters and the knitters...maids* that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chaunt it ; it is silly sooth,* And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age. s Clo. Are... | |
| John Walker - Elocution - 1810 - 394 pages
...Description of languishing Love. O fellow, come, the song we had last night : — Mark it, Cesario ; it is old and plain ; The spinsters, and the knitters...maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chaunt it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love Like to old age. Hud. If musick... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...The spinsters and the knitters in the Sun, [bones, And the free maids that weave their thread with Do use to chant it It is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age. .- Shaksp. Twelfth Night FAR in the windings of a vale, Fast by a sheltering wood, The safe retreat... | |
| David Mallet - 1810 - 42 pages
...in ¿he fun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do ufe to chant it. It is filly Sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age. POSTSCRIPT, : taedae quoq ; jure coîssent Sed vetûere patres, quod non potuere vetare Ex aequo captis... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1811 - 454 pages
...Re-enter Curio, and Clown. Duke. O fellow, come, the song we had last night : — Mark it, Cesario; it is old and plain: The spinsters and the knitters...sun, And the free maids, that weave their thread with honest, Do use to chaunt it; it is silly soothj, And dallies with the innocence of love. Like the old... | |
| Benjamin Stillingfleet - Natural history - 1811 - 480 pages
...sensations. " The ploughman whistling o'er the furrow'd land/' *' The milk-maid singing blithe," " The spinsters and the knitters in the Sun, And the free maids, that weave their thread with bone . Chaunting," were objects that drew the attention of two of the greatest poets the world has... | |
| Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1811 - 456 pages
...fragments, which descend by tradition, and are early imprinted on every mind ¡ — " Which spinners and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids, that weave their thread with bones, »o use to chant of." Mr. Cromek next proceeds to investigate some of the causes which may have led... | |
| Anne MacVicar Grant - Highlands (Scotland). - 1811 - 690 pages
...of real passion : Nobody thought of that most absurd of all things. — a fictitious love-song." " It is silly, sooth, " And dallies with the innocence of love, " Like the old age." My Colin, lov'd Colin, my Colin, my dear, Who wont the wild mountains to trace without fear ; Oh !... | |
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