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" 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 203
by Charles Knight - 1843 - 542 pages
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Specimens of the British poets, Volume 2

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...
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Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 2

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...
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 3

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...
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Elements of Elocution: In which the Principles of Reading and Speaking 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...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 14

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...
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Edwin, and Emma [a poem, by D. Mallet]. illustr. by G. Arnald

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...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: Sketch of the life of Shakspeare. Tempest ...

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...
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Literary life and select works of Benjamin Stillingfleet [ed. by W. Coxe].

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...
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Select Reviews, and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines, Volume 5

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...
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Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland: To ..., Volume 1

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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