| C. C. Channer - 2007 - 168 pages
[ Sorry, this page's content is restricted ] | |
| [ Sorry, this page's content is restricted ] | |
| Fiona McNeill - 2007 - 20 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 chant it. (2.4.42-46) This obscure moment in a familiar play offers a compelling account of much larger... | |
| Steve Newman - 2007 - 316 pages
[ Sorry, this page's content is restricted ] | |
| Mary Ellen Lamb, Karen Bamford - 2008 - 292 pages
...It is, after all, Feste who is called upon by Orsino to deliver the songs of "The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, / And the free maids that weave their thread with bones," not the women themselves (77V II. iv. 44-5). : In the early modern era, the anxiety over female chastity... | |
| Elizabeth Aston - 2007 - 352 pages
...Lady Sophronia had asked to see them. "I shall fetch it directly," she said. The Second Mrs. Darcy 251 "And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it: it is sooth—" Lord Rutherford's attention faltered for a moment. "Damn it, all these sibilants."... | |
| |