 | William Hazlitt - Drama - 1818 - 552 pages
...Shakespear's 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....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. SONG. Come away, come... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 358 pages
...are : 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 :...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. Clo. Are you ready, sir... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
...Shakspeare's 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....knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their tiread with bones, Do use to chant it : it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love,... | |
 | James Ford - English literature - 1818 - 430 pages
...airs, and recollected terms " Of these most brisk, and giddy-paced times. " Come, but one Verse. " Mark it, Cesario, it is OLD and PLAIN ; " The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, " And thefreemaids, that weave their thread with bones, " Do use to chant it : it is SILLY sooth, " And dallies... | |
 | James Ford - English literature - 1818 - 432 pages
...Hall in his Satires notices them as and Shakespeare describes them as " old and plain," chaunttd by " The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, " And the free maids that weave their threads with bones." Whatever these songs were, it is evident they formed a source of recreation to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1819 - 560 pages
...that they are so ; To die, even when they to perfection grow ! Re-enter CURIO, and Clown. Duke. О fellow, come, the song we had last night : — Mark...maids, that weave their thread with bones, Do use to cliaunt it ; it is silly sooth, And (lililíes with the innocence of love, Like the old age. Clo. Are... | |
 | English literature - 1820 - 608 pages
...influence, of these ancient melodies. Mark it, Cesario— it is old and plain ; The spinsters, and die 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. Music is introduced by... | |
 | 1821 - 746 pages
...we shall take leave to transcribe it for our readers, many of •whom may not perhaps recollect it. em ! ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, J <ikc the old age. Clo-cn. Are you ready,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 476 pages
...they are so ; To die, even when they to perfection grow ! * Countenanee. Re-enter CUHIo and CLowN. Duke. O fellow, come, the song we had last night :...weave their thread with bones, * Do use to chaunt it ; it is silly sooth, + And dallies with the iunocence of love, Like the old age. J Clo. Are you ready,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 528 pages
...are : 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 :...free ' maids, that weave their thread with bones, « — lost and WORN,] Though lost and worn may mean lost and worn out, yet lost and won being, I think,... | |
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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. 
