 | Richard Thomson - 1827 - 728 σελίδες
...fine description of a popular ballad in Twelfth Night : — ' Mark it, Cesario, it is old and plain; The Spinsters, and the Knitters in the sun, And the...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 - 1827 - 650 σελίδες
...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 - 1827 - 648 σελίδες
...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, William Dodd - 1827 - 362 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | John Docwra Parry - 1829 - 460 σελίδες
...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."— SHAKSFEARE.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 424 σελίδες
...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...maids that 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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 842 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 506 σελίδες
...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."... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 856 σελίδες
...networke to compare. Spemcr. Miiiiijiotjiws. The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, Л nl the three maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it. Shakspeare. Twelfth Night. Let their heads be sleekly combed, their blue coats brushed, and their garters... | |
 | James Boaden - 1831 - 410 σελίδες
...another beautiful remark from the Duke to his young favourite. " Mark it, Cesario, it is old and plain ; The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the...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 the... | |
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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. 
