 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
 | J. L. Styan - 1975 - 272 pages
...sir. If we doubted Orsino's self-love before, the melancholy selfindulgence of a song that belongs to The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones must now set us right. With Andrew Aguecheek's song, Il.iii, Shakespeare had no need to exercise himself... | |
 | Anne Drury Hall - 2010 - 217 pages
...plain that Orsino is 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... | |
 | 1915 - 766 pages
...in Twelfth Night — " — Come, that song we had last night: Hark it, Cesario, it is old and plain; The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their threads with bones, Do use to chaunt it: it is silly-sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 132 pages
...yellow melancholy'), it is gratifyingly sensuous when read aloud. Mark it, Cesario, it is old and plain: The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their threads with bones, Do use to chant it ... What seems to be a functional introduction to an old song... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1993 - 220 pages
...perfezione. Entrano Curia e Feste ORSINO Vieni, amico, canta la canzone Della notte scorsa. Ascolta, Cesario, 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. FESTE... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 692 pages
...and Feste ORSINO 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 chant it. It is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love Like the old age. 29... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 264 pages
...CURIO and FESTE 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 dieir direads with bones, Do use to chant it; it is silly soodi, And dallies with the innocence of... | |
 | Alan Sinfield, Lindsay Smith - 1998 - 208 pages
...paced times', and claims to prefer the kind of 'old and plain' song that The spinsrers and the knitrers in the sun. And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chaunt.43 Ptince Hamler, at a celebrared moment in his play, dismisses the 'low' rasre of... | |
 | Harold Bloom - 2001 - 750 pages
...[H.iv.94-104] 3. 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 chant it: it is silly sooth, /And dallies with the innocence of love, / Like the old age.... | |
 | Jennifer Mulherin - 2001 - 36 pages
...recollected terms Of these most brisk and giddy-paced times . . . 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, 1 '.ike the old age... | |
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