 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
 | Richard Thomson - Bridges - 1827 - 728 pages
...characterises it, as that fine description of a popular ballad in Twelfth Night : — ' Mark it, Cesario, it is old and plain; The Spinsters, and the Knitters...maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chatmt it ' " " Come, my good Sir," replied Mr. Postern, " no more words on't, but sing, I pray you."... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1827 - 648 pages
...enabled to hand them down inheritances more valuable than ditties ' old and plain,' for the benefit of ' The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones.' This people maintained for ages a dubious struggle with the power of the Byzantine empire ; but the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1827 - 650 pages
...enabled to hand them down inheritances more valuable than ditties ' old and plain,' for the benefit of ' The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones.' This people maintained for ages a dubious struggle with the power of the Byzantine empire; but the... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1827 - 362 pages
...longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, Than womcflrt are. CHARACTER OP AN OLD SONG. Mark it, Cesario; it is old and plain: The spinsters and> the knitters in the sun, Are the free maids, that weave their thread with bones,* Do use to chaunt it; it is silly sooth,t And... | |
 | Anne Drury Hall - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 217 pages
...Shakespeare makes it plain that Orsino is pleased by the song's old-fashionedness: Mark it, Cesario; it is old and plain. The spinsters and the knitters...dallies with the innocence of love. Like the old age. This is practically a thumbnail sketch of a ceremonial mode: it is plain, it is sung by powerless people,... | |
 | Gary Schmidgall - Biography & Autobiography - 1990 - 256 pages
...when the "gaudy blossoms" of Petrarch were still thick on the bush. He asks for a song and explains, "it is silly sooth, / And dallies with the innocence of love, / Like the old age" (2.4.46-48). Olivia turns back a second attempt by Cesario at courteous periphrasis with words that... | |
 | 1915 - 766 pages
...words in Shakespeare, in Twelfth Night — " — Come, that song we had last night: Hark it, Cesario, it is old and plain; The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their threads with bones, Do use to chaunt it: it is silly-sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Brothers and sisters - 1992 - 132 pages
...phrase 'green and yellow melancholy'), it is gratifyingly sensuous when read aloud. Mark it, Cesario, it is old and plain: The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their threads with bones, Do use to chant it ... What seems to be a functional introduction to an old song... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1993 - 220 pages
...perfezione. Entrano Curia e Feste ORSINO Vieni, amico, canta la canzone Della notte scorsa. Ascolta, Cesario, The spinsters, and the knitters in the sun, And the...dallies with the innocence of love Like the old age. FESTE Are you ready, sir ? ORSINO Ay, prithee sing. Music plays FESTE (sings) Come away, come away,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 692 pages
...perfection grow. Enfer Curio and Feste ORSINO O, fellow, come, the song we had last night. Mark it, Cesario; it is old and plain. The spinsters, and the knitters...dallies with the innocence of love Like the old age. 29 still al ways 37 bold tht bent remain at full stretch (a 30 »ears she she adapts herself metaphor... | |
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