 Barbara : She was in love, and he she loved proved mad And did forsake her : she had a song of ' willow ; ' An old thing 'twas, but it express'd her fortune, And she died singing it...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 371828Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 574 pages
...come, you talk. DCS. My mother had a maid call'd Barbara : She was in love ; and he she lov'd prov'd mad, And did forsake her: she had a song of — willow,...fortune, And she died singing it. That song, to-night, 1 One of those side intimations of the fluctuations of passion, which we seldom meet with but in Shakespeare.... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1856 - 576 pages
...affecting manner : " Mv mother had a maid call'd Barbara : She was in love ; and he she lov'd prov'd mad, And did forsake her. She had a song of — Willow....An old thing 'twas, but it express'd her fortune, Aud she died singing it." Ed. 1793, vol. xv. p. 613. This is given from a black-letter copy in the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1976 - 328 pages
...sheets. EMILIA : Come, come, you talk. DESDEMONA: My mother had a maid called Barbary; She was in love, and he she loved proved mad And did forsake her. She had a song of willow; An old thing 'twas, but it expressed her fortune, And she died singing it. That song tonight 30 Will not go from my mind ; I have... | |
 | Jane Adamson - Drama - 1980 - 316 pages
...(1976), PP. 39-6oMy mother had a maid called Barbary : She was in love: and he she loved proved mail And did forsake her. She had a song of willow; An old thing 'twas; but it expressed her fortune, And she died singing it. That song tonight Will not go from my mind : I have... | |
 | Benjamin Carr - Music - 1986 - 114 pages
...Mother had a Maid call'd BARBARIE: She was in Love; and he she lov'd forsook her and she prov'd mad. She had a Song of WILLOW an old thing 'twas, but it express'd her Fortune and she died singing it." DLC, ES, LSL, MdHi, NN, NRU-Mus, PP-K. Text: William Shakespeare, Othello, act 4, scene 3 (paraphrased).... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - Drama - 1992 - 340 pages
...prythee, shroud me in one of those same sheets." The recollection of her mother's maid, poor Barbara? The song of "Willow" "An old thing 'twas, but it express'd...singing it: that song tonight Will not go from my mind," etc. The wandering away from Barbara to notice delicately the "proper person" of Lodovico. The return... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 180 pages
...sheets. EMILIA Come, come, you talk. DESDEM. My mother had a maid called Barbary. She was in love; and he she loved proved mad, And did forsake her....had a song of 'willow': An old thing 'twas, but it expressed her fortune, And she died singing it. That song tonight Will not go from my mind. I have... | |
 | Maynard Mack - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 300 pages
...on the night that will be her last, remembers her mother's maid "called Barbary": She was in love, and he she loved proved mad And did forsake her. She...had a song of "Willow;" An old thing 'twas; but it expressed her fortune, And she died singing it. That song to-night Will not go from my mind. (4.3.25)... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 324 pages
...sheets. EM ' L ' A Come, come, you talL DESDEMONA My mother had a maid called Barbary: She was in love: and he she loved proved mad And did forsake her. She had a song of willow; An old thing 'twas; but it expressed her fortune, And she died singing it. That song tonight Will not go from my mind : I have... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Alan Durband - Drama - 2014 - 330 pages
...sheets. 30 Emilia Come, come, you talk. Desdemona My mother had a maid called Barbary: She was in love and he she loved proved mad And did forsake her. She had a song of willow; An old thing 'twas; but it expressed her fortune, 35 And she died singing it. That song tonight Will not go from my mind. I have... | |
| |
