 | William Child Green - 1826 - 606 pages
...Arabella Thompson. 23. 3 A 538 THE WOODLAND FAMILY. CHAPTER LV. • " Mark it, Cxsario, it is true and plain : The spinsters, and the knitters in the...free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use lu cbaunt it." SHAKiPEAEE. As soon as they were gone, Mountdale summoned his valet, and ordered him... | |
 | 1826 - 918 pages
...fate That waiti fidelity. LEI/ A DEVONSHIRE TRADITIOX. '•' It is old and plain ; The spinster«, and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that...weave their thread with bones Do use to chant it. SHAKSPKAKE. TT was on a Saturday night, about *• the latter end of October in the year 1638, that... | |
 | English drama - 1826 - 508 pages
...popular in the days of Shakspeare, and of which the poet himself gives so interesting a character ;— " Mark it, Cesario,— it is old and plain : The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, Ami Uiu free maids that weave their thread with bones Do use to chant it : it is silly, sooth, And... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 540 pages
...are so ; To die, even when they to perfection grow ! Re-enter CORIO and Clown. Duke. O fello w,come, the song we had last night : — Mark it, Cesario ; it is old, and plain : The spiusters and the knitters in the sun, And the free5 maids that weave their thread with bones, 4 ie... | |
 | Richard Thomson - Bridges - 1827 - 728 pages
...of nothing which so well characterises it, as that fine description of a popular ballad in Twelfth Night : — ' Mark it, Cesario, it is old and plain;...maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chatmt it ' " " Come, my good Sir," replied Mr. Postern, " no more words on't, but sing, I pray you."... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1827 - 650 pages
...enabled to hand them down inheritances more valuable than ditties ' old and plain,' for the benefit of ' The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones.' This people maintained for ages a dubious struggle with the power of the Byzantine empire; but the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1827 - 648 pages
...enabled to hand them down inheritances more valuable than ditties ' old and plain,' for the benefit of ' The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones.' This people maintained for ages a dubious struggle with the power of the Byzantine empire ; but the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1827 - 658 pages
...and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, 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, Are the free maids, that weave their thread with bones,* Do use to chaunt it; it is silly sooth,f And... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1827 - 362 pages
...AN OLD SONG. Mark it, Cesario; it is old and plain: The spinsters and> the knitters in the sun, Are the free maids, that weave their thread with bones,* Do use to chaunt it; it is silly sooth,t And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.J SONG'. Come... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1828 - 404 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 it, Cesario ; it is old, and plam: The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, Aud the free maids that weave their thread with hones,... | |
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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. 
