 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 of love, Like the old age.  The book of the Axe - Page 609by George Philip R. Pulman - 1875 - 906 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 460 pages
...fellow, come, the song we had last night : — Mark it, Cesarto; it is old and plain : The spiusters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids, that weave their thread with bo nest, Do use to channt it; it is silly sooth;, And dallies with the innocence of love, lake the... | |
 | 1812 - 470 pages
...ballads, and 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, Do use to chant of." Mr. Cromek next proceeds to investigate some of the causes which may have led... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 434 pages
...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 chaunt it ; it is silly sooth, s And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.... | |
 | John Freeman Milward Dovaston - English poetry - 1812 - 312 pages
...Reliques of the Bards , and the collection of Parry. PART I. " it i> old and plain, J • The ip lusters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread* with bone.1^ Do use to chaunt it ; it is silly sooth.1' TWILFTK N1CBT. ; Crepe Baroni A BALLAD, IN IMITATION... | |
 | Robert Fergusson - Scotland - 1815 - 348 pages
...Braith Claith, ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF SCOTS MUSIC. Mark it, Csesario; 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. SHAKESPZAIIE'S TWELFTH NIGBT. ON Scotia's plains, in days of yore, When lads and... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...fall that very hour. Character of an old Song. Mark it, C'esario, 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 of k>v« Like the old age. Song.... | |
 | Scotland - 1816 - 838 pages
...the essence of the " old and antique song." " 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 chaunt it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age."... | |
 | England - 1846 - 798 pages
...the essence of the " old and antique song." " Mark it, Cesario ; it is old and plain i The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to channt it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the iunocence of lore, Like the old age."... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pages
...Duke. 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 chauut it: it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age. SONG.... | |
 | England - 1839 - 870 pages
...and giddy-patcd times." And again, " Mark it, Caesatio — it is old and plain : — The spinsters, and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do wont to sing it." Yes 1 Shakspeare has sought for the standard of taste in music in a quarter which... | |
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