| William Shakespeare - 1819 - 560 pages
...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 cliaunt it ; it is silly sooth, And (lililíes with the innocence of love, Like the old age. Clo. Are... | |
| 1821 - 746 pages
...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...silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, J <ikc the old age. Clo-cn. Are you ready, sir ? Duke. Ay ; pr'ythec, sing. SONG. C&nrn. Come away,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 476 pages
...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...chaunt it ; it is silly sooth, + And dallies with the iunocence of love, Like the old age. J Clo. Are you ready, Sir? f)uke. Ay ; pr'ythee, sing. [Musie.... | |
| 1821 - 724 pages
...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... | |
| Robert Fergusson, James Gray - 1821 - 292 pages
...Claith. ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF SCOTS MUSIC. Mark it, Ca?sario ! 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. Shakespeare's Twelfth Klgfit. ON Scotia's plains, in days of yore, When lads an' lasses tartan... | |
| Scottish border - 1821 - 718 pages
...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 of love, Like the old age." The song, which is thus beautifully prefaced, we have thrown into a note.* On comparing this love elegy,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 pages
...weakness and my melancholy;" but for the satisfaction of the reader, I will quote the whole passage : " it is silly sooth, and dallies with the innocence of love, like the old age." " Cynthia. Well, let us to Endymion. I will not be so stately (good Endymion) not to stoop to do thee... | |
| 1821 - 778 pages
...many varieties, is common in Northumberland — Your spinsters and your knitters in the sun, And those free maids that Weave their thread with bones, Do use to chaunt it— it is «illy, sooth. Like most ballads, however, its vulgarity has a touch of the plaintive. .1 could only... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 pages
...weakness and my melancholy;" but for the satisfaction of the reader, I will quote the whole passage : " it is silly sooth, and dallies with the innocence of love, like the old age." " Cynthia. Well, let us to Endymion. I will not be so stately (good Endymion) not to stoop to do thee... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 528 pages
...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, « — lost and WORN,] Though lost and worn may mean lost and worn out, yet lost and won being, I think,... | |
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