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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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Werke in zehn Bänden: Schriften zur Asthetik und Literatur 1767-1781

Johann Gottfried Herder - 1985 - 1510 pages
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Harold Bloom - 1986 - 304 pages
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Ceremony and Civility in English Renaissance Prose

Anne Drury Hall - 2010 - 217 pages
...pleased by the song's old-fashionedness: 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. This is practically...
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An Oxford Anthology of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1987 - 424 pages
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Leah Scragg - 1988 - 258 pages
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1988 - 388 pages
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The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1989 - 912 pages
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A Dictionary of Shakespeare's Sexual Puns and Their Significance

Frankie Rubinstein - 1995 - 404 pages
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Shakespeare and the Poet's Life

Gary Schmidgall - 1990 - 256 pages
...when the "gaudy blossoms" of Petrarch were still thick on the bush. He asks for a song and explains, "it is silly sooth, / And dallies with the innocence of love, / Like the old age" (2.4.46-48). Olivia turns back a second attempt by Cesario at courteous periphrasis with words that...
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Poems 1833

Hartley Coleridge - 1990 - 184 pages
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