 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 532 pages
...alas, that they are so ; To die, even when they to perfection grow! Re-enter CURIO and CLOWN. Duke. O fellow, come, the song we had last night:— Mark...plain : The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And tne free maids, that weave their thread with bones, Do use In chaunt it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 470 pages
...alas, that thev are so ; To die, even when they to perfection grow ! Re-enter CURIO and CLOWN. Duke. O fellow, come, the song we had last night :— Mark...plain : The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And tne free maids, that weave their thread with bones, Do use to ehannt it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies... | |
 | Robert Fergusson - Scotland - 1815 - 348 pages
...see ye wi' a suit on. 0' gude Braith Claith, ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF SCOTS MUSIC. Mark it, Csesario; it is old and plain, The spinsters and the knitters...maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it. SHAKESPZAIIE'S TWELFTH NIGBT. ON Scotia's plains, in days of yore, When lads and lasses tartan... | |
 | Scotland - 1816 - 838 pages
...express what we should vainly puzzle ourselves to describe, the essence of the " old and antique song." " Mark it, Cesario ; it is old and plain ; The spinsters...sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age." Ay! like gray eld fondling sunny childhood, gazing on the wavy hair, and pure brow, and... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...roses ; whose fair flower, Iking once displuy'd, doth fall that very hour. Character of an old Song. Mark it, C'esario, it is old and plain : The spinsters...maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of k>v« Like the old age. Song. Come... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1817 - 360 pages
...that they are so ; To die, even when they to perfection grow ! Re-enter CURIO, and C/otrn. Duke. О fellow, come, the song we had last night : — Mark...sooth,* And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.6 Clo. Are you ready, sir ? Duke. Ay ; pr'ythee, sing. [Mutic. SONG. Clo. Come away, corne... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pages
...songs. One of the most beautiful of them occurs in this play, with a preface of his own to it. '' Duke. O fellow, come; the song we had last night. Mark it,...maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chauut it: it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age. SONG. Come... | |
 | England - 1839 - 870 pages
...and recollected terms, Of these most brisk and giddy-patcd times." And again, " Mark it, Caesatio — it is old and plain : — The spinsters, and the knitters...free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do wont to sing it." Yes 1 Shakspeare has sought for the standard of taste in music in a quarter which... | |
 | England - 1846 - 798 pages
...to describe, the essence of the " old and antique song." " Mark it, Cesario ; it is old and plain i The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the...maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to channt it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the iunocence of lore, Like the old age." Ay ! like... | |
 | England - 1846 - 816 pages
...express what we should vainly pnz/lc ourselves to describe, the essence of the " old and antique song." " Mark it, Cesario ; it is old and plain ) The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maida that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chaunt it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with... | |
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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 chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age. 
