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" 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 of love, Like the old age. "
Works: With a Sketch of the Author's Life - Page 250
by Robert Fergusson - 1807 - 364 pages
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Midsummer night's dream ; Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; Taming of ...

William Shakespeare, Nicholas Rowe - 1709 - 572 pages
...Duke. O Fellow come, the Song we had laft night. Mark it, Cefario, it is old and plain ; The Spinfters and the Knitters in the Sun, And the free Maids that weave their Thread with Bones^ Do ufe to chant it : it is filly footh, And dallies with the Innocence of Love, Like the old Age. Clo....
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The poetical works of Robert Fergusson, with biogr intr., notes and glossary ...

Robert Fergusson - 1773 - 344 pages
...could see ye wi' a suit on O' gude braid elaith. ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF SCOTS MUSIC. Mark it, Csesario ! it is old and plain, The spinsters and the knitters...weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it. — Skaksjieare's Twelfth Night. ON Scotia's plains, in days of yore, When lads and lasses tartan wore,...
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Twelfth night. Winter's tale

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 442 pages
...night :— Mark it, Cesario ; it is old, and plain : The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chatmt it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like die old age. Clo. Are you...
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The Poetical Register, and Repository of Fugitive Poetry for ..., Volume 2

1803 - 502 pages
...smiles the anguish of despair, And pity an unhappy lover. DC 16 ST. ANDREW'S EVE, A VILLAGE LEGEND. The Spinsters, and the Knitters in the sun, And the...maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chaunt it. SHAKSPEAHE'S TWELFTH NIGHT. KEEN, the winds of November swept over the wold, And stripp'd...
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The Poetical Register, and Repository of Fugitive Poetry for 1801-11, Volume 2

1803 - 508 pages
...anguish of despair, And pity an unhappy lover. D. c. EDINBURGH. ST. ANDREW'S EVE, A VILLAGE LEGEND. The Spinsters, and the Knitters in the sun, And the...maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chaunt it. SHAKIPEAHI'S TWELFTH MIGHT. KEEN, the winds of November swept over the wold, And stripp'd...
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Notes Upon Some of the Obscure Passages in Shakespeare's Plays: With Remarks ...

John Howe Baron Chedworth - 1805 - 392 pages
...doubt. P. 211.— 45.— 70. 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. I incline to think that Mr. Henley's is the true explanation of free. P. 211.— 45.—...
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A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are ..., Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 pages
...thorns. • • L"vt" •;/y*/*'J J. A woman that spins. The ,pu,stcr, and the knitters in the sun, Afld the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it. St^ftart. One Michael Cassio, rnat never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 426 pages
...Re-enter CUEIO, and Cloven. Duke. O fellow, come, the song we had last night : — Mark it, Cesarib; 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 innocence of love, Like the old age. Cio. Are you...
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The Plays of Shakspeare: Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson ..., Volume 12

William Shakespeare - 1807 - 344 pages
...Duke. O fellow, come, the song we had last night : — Mark it, Cesario; it is old, and plain : Tin- 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. Clo. Are you...
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Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 2

Henry Headley - 1810 - 236 pages
...been thy conqueror." LLWEN AND GYNETH. 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 chant it. <HAKSPEABB. LLWEN. " \J MY troubled soul, I see nought save the hollowbeating wave ; the cold lumiuary...
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