 | 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 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 - 1828 - 404 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 :— 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,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 424 pages
...Eiodui xxxv. 26. Weaving spiders come not here: Hence, you long-legged spinners, hence ! Sbalapearr. The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the...weave their thread with bones, Do use to chaunt it. Id. Twefth Night. You would be another Penelope ; yet all the yarn she spun, in Ulysses's absence,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 842 pages
...Weaving spiders come not here : Hence, you long-legged spinners, hence ! S/uikspeare. The tpmsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that...weave their thread with bones, Do use to chaunt it. Id. Tuefth Night. You would be another Penelope ; yet all the yarn she ария, in Ulysses's absence,... | |
 | John Docwra Parry - Ballads, English - 1829 - 460 pages
...break thy Edwin's too !" THE FRIAR OF ORDERS GRAY. BY DR. PERCY. -" IT is old and plain; The spinners 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 (simple truth), And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age."—... | |
 | William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 506 pages
...last nicht:— Mark it, Ccsario : it is old and plain : The spinsters and the knitters in the aun, And the free maids, that weave their thread with bones,' Do use to chaunt it ; it is silly sooth, '" \ni dallies with the innocence of love, — * : .ike the old age." (6) Amazon.... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 420 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 :...The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the freec maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chaunt it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies... | |
 | James Boaden - Actors - 1831 - 410 pages
...the song, and his appearance draws another beautiful remark from the Duke to his young favourite. " Mark it, Cesario, 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 love, Like the old age." And then follows... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 542 pages
...of his own to ft. 1 Dul-c. О fellow, come, the song we had last night:— Mark it, Cesarlo; it IB t as your spaniel, spurn me, strike me, Neglect me,...me leave, Unworthy as I am, to follow you. What wo chainit it; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the Innocence of love, Like the old Agtt.*' " After... | |
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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. 
