...Hall in his Satires notices them as and Shakespeare describes them as " old and plain," chaunttd by " The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, " And the free maids that weave their threads with bones." Whatever these songs were, it is evident they formed a source of recreation to...

...recollected terms " Of these most brisk, and giddy-paced times. " Come, but one Verse. " Mark it, Cesario, it is OLD and PLAIN ; " The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, " And thefreemaids, that weave their thread with bones, " Do use to chant it : it is SILLY sooth, " And dallies...

...influence, of these ancient melodies. Mark it, Cesario— it is old and plain ; The spinsters, and die knitters in the sun, And the free 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. Music is...

...see ye wi' a. suit on O' gude Braid Claith. ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF SCOTS MUSIC. Mark it, Ca?sario ! it is old and plain, The spinsters and the knitters...weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it. Shakespeare's Twelfth Klgfit. ON Scotia's plains, in days of yore, When lads an' lasses tartan wore,...

...Countenanee. Re-enter CUHIo 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 iunocence of love, Like the old age. J Clo. Are...

...cou'd see ye wi' a suit on O' gude Braid Claith. ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF SCOTS MUSIC. Mark it, Cssario ! it is old and plain, The spinsters and the knitters...sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bonei, Do use to chant it. Shakespeare'! Twelfth XigM. ON Scotia's plains, in days of yore, When lads...

...secrets of the human heart, would have accounted to him why " old and plain songs," which The spinners and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chaunt, and which, dally with the innocence of love, Like the old age, will always, so long as human...

...difference between the species of poem which is described, and that which is sung : " Mark it, Caesario ; it is old and plain. The spinsters, and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids who weave their thread with bones, Do wont to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence...

...Re-enter CURIo, and Clown. DUK£. 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 1 maids, that weave their thread with bones, ' — lost and WORN,] Though lost and worn may mean lotl...

...weakness and my melancholy;" but for the satisfaction of the reader, I will quote the whole passage : " it is silly sooth, and dallies with the innocence of love, like the old age." " Cynthia. Well, let us to Endymion. I will not be so stately (good Endymion) not to stoop to do thee...