 | Robert Fergusson - 1821 - 278 pagine
...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... | |
 | 1821 - 724 pagine
...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 nature... | |
 | Scottish border - 1821 - 718 pagine
...seems a marked 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 528 pagine
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1822 - 446 pagine
...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...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.2 Clo. Are you ready,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pagine
...formerly, gave birth to the foregoing Poem. MAI-LET. EDWIN AND EMMA '. Mark it, Cesario, it is true and plain ; The spinsters and the knitters in the...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. SHAKSH. Twelfth... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 380 pagine
...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 in the sun, And the free maids4 that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chaunt it ; it is silly sooth,8 And dallies with... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 984 pagine
...grow ! Re-enter G'i.'Rio, and CLOWN. Duke. O fellow, come, the song we had last Mark it, Ccsario : ld these exhalations ? P. Hen. I do. Bard. What think you they portend? P. Hen mauls, that weave their thread with bones,* Do use to chuunt it ; it is silly sooth, t And dallies... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 474 pagine
...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 in the sun, And the free 6 maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chaunt it; it is silly sooth 7 , And dallies... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1823 - 354 pagine
...maidens spinning, or milking; and indeed Shakespeare had described them as " old and plain," chanted by " The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their threads with bones." • Twelfth Night. They were the favourites of the Poet of Nature, who takes every... | |
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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. 
