 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 544 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 free5 maids that weave their thread with bones, 4 ie consumed, worn out. 5 ie chaste maids, employed... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 482 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 free6 maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chaunt it ; it is silly sooth,7 And dallies... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 548 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 free5 maids that weave their thread with bones, 4 ie consumed, worn out. s ie chaste maids, employed... | |
 | 1826 - 508 pagine
...Shakspeare, and of which the poet himself gives so interesting a character ;— " Mark it, Cesario,— it is old and plain : The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, Ami Uiu free maids that weave their thread with bones Do use to chant it : it is silly, sooth, And... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 996 pagine
...Re-enter Coaio and Clown. Dalu. O fellow, come, the song we had last night: — Mark it, Cesario ; Slmll break into corruption : —so went on, Foretelling this sa Aad me free maids, that weave their thread with bones, Lte me to chaunt it ; it is silly sooth, And... | |
 | Richard Thomson - 1827 - 728 pagine
...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 - 1827 - 648 pagine
...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 - 1827 - 650 pagine
...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 pagine
...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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 424 pagine
...Eiodui xxxv. 26. Weaving spiders come not here: Hence, you long-legged spinners, hence ! Sbalapearr. The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the...weave their thread with bones, Do use to chaunt it. Id. Twefth Night. You would be another Penelope ; yet all the yarn she spun, in Ulysses's absence,... | |
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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. 
