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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 chaunt it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age. "
The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany - Page 245
1820
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1810 - 440 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...dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age. s Clo. Are you ready, sir ? lDuke. Ay ; pr'y thee, sing. [Music. SONG. Clo. Come away, come away, death,...
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Elements of Elocution: In which the Principles of Reading and Speaking are ...

John Walker - 1810 - 394 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...sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love Like to old age. Hud. If musick be the food of love, play on ; Give me excess of it ; that, surfeiting,...
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Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 2

Henry Headley - 1810 - 236 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. <HAKSPEABB. LLWEN. " \J MY troubled soul, I see nought save the hollowbeating wave ; the...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;: Mallet, Akenside ...

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 622 pages
...and the knitters in the Sun, [bones, And the free maids that weave their thread with Do use to chant it. It is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age. Shaksp. Twelfth Night. FAR in the windings of a vale, Fast by a sheltering wood, The safe retreat of...
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Edwin, and Emma [a poem, by D. Mallet]. illustr. by G. Arnald

David Mallet - 1810 - 42 pages
...in ¿he fun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do ufe to chant it. It is filly Sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age. POSTSCRIPT, : taedae quoq ; jure coîssent Sed vetûere patres, quod non potuere vetare Ex aequo captis...
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Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland: To ..., Volume 1

Anne MacVicar Grant - 1811 - 690 pages
...of real passion : Nobody thought of that most absurd of all things. — a fictitious love-song." " It is silly, sooth, " And dallies with the innocence of love, " Like the old age." My Colin, lov'd Colin, my Colin, my dear, Who wont the wild mountains to trace without fear ; Oh !...
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Twelfth-night. Measure for measure. Much ado about nothing. Midsummer-night ...

William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 520 pages
...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 with the8 innocence of love, - Like the old age.9 Clo. Are you ready, sir ? Duke....
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Select Reviews, and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines, Volume 5

Enos Bronson - 1811 - 456 pages
...fragments, which descend by tradition, and are early imprinted on every mind ¡ — " Which spinners and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids, that weave their thread with bones, »o use to chant of." Mr. Cromek next proceeds to investigate some of the causes which may have led...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1811 - 460 pages
...come, the song we had last night : — Mark it, Cesarto; it is old and plain : The spiusters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids, that weave their thread with bo nest, Do use to channt it; it is silly sooth;, And dallies with the innocence of love, lake the...
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Literary life and select works of Benjamin Stillingfleet [ed. by W. Coxe].

Benjamin Stillingfleet - 1811 - 480 pages
...ploughman whistling o'er the furrow'd land/' *' The milk-maid singing blithe," " The spinsters and the knitters in the Sun, And the free maids, that weave their thread with bone . Chaunting," were objects that drew the attention of two of the greatest poets the world has...
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