 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.  The Quarterly Review - Page 67edited by - 1827Full view - About this book
 | 1821 - 724 pages
...secrets of 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... | |
 | Scottish border - 1821 - 718 pages
...species of poem which is described, and that which is sung : " Mark it, Caesario ; it is old and plain. The spinsters, 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1822 - 446 pages
...Clown. Duke. O 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 chaunt it ; it is silly sooth,' And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.2... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1823 - 354 pages
...maidens spinning, or milking; and indeed Shakespeare had described them as " old and plain," chanted by " The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their threads with bones." • Twelfth Night. They were the favourites of the Poet of Nature, who takes every... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 518 pages
...Clown. Duke. O 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 u«e to chaunt it ; it is silly sooth,10 And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.11... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1824 - 670 pages
...of song, 'Jlui old and antique soug we heard last night: Mark it, Caesario ; 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 chaunt it : — ' and I instantly sang to my harp that old and popular ditty, ' It was the... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1824 - 658 pages
...of song, That old and antique soug we heard last night: Mark it, Caesario ; 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 chaunt it : — ' and I instantly sang to my harp that old and popular ditty, ' It was the... | |
 | Nathan Drake (M.D.) - 1824 - 656 pages
...of song, That old and antique song we heard last night: Mark it, Caesario ; 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 chaunt it : — ' and I instantly sang to my harp that old and popular ditty, « It was the... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1824 - 428 pages
...lost and worn, Than women's are. CHARACTER OF AN OLD SONG. 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 soothf, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old ageJ.... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odour. 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 bone, Do use to chaunt it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, This music mads... | |
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