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" Mark it, Cesario; it is old and plain: 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. "
The Suffolk Garland: Or, a Collection of Poems, Songs, Tales, Ballads ... - Page 104
edited by - 1818 - 404 pages
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 59

1846 - 816 pages
...and the knitters in the sun, And the free maida 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." Ay ! like gray eld fondling sunny childhood, gazing on the wavy hair, and pure brow, and calm yet kiudling...
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Characters of Shakespear's Plays

William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pages
...and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chauut it: it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age. SONG. Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath; I...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1817 - 360 pages
...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.6 Clo. Are you ready, sir ? Duke. Ay ; pr'ythee, sing. [Mutic. SONG. Clo. Come away, corne away,...
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Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
...old and plain ; The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their tiread with bones, Do use to chant it : it is silly sooth,...dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age. SONG. Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid : Fly away, fly away, breath ;...
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The Family Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes; in which Nothing is Added ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1818 - 358 pages
...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. Clo. Are you ready, sir ? Duke. Ay; pr'ythee, sing. [Musiek. f SONG. Clo. Come away, come away, death,...
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Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

William Hazlitt - 1818 - 328 pages
...Mark it, C'esario, it is old and plain ; 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 dalliei with the innocence of love, .'•ike the old age. SONG. Come away, come away, death, And in...
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 85

1820 - 608 pages
...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 Shakespeare more as tending to heighten the beauty of particular scenes, than...
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Minstrelsy of the Scottish border: consisting of historical and ..., Volume 1

Scottish border - 1821 - 718 pages
...spinsters, and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids who weave their thread with bones, Do wont to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age." The song, which is thus beautifully prefaced, we have thrown into a note.* On comparing this love elegy,...
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Lectures chiefly on the dramatic literature of the age of Elizabeth

William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 pages
...weakness and my melancholy;" but for the satisfaction of the reader, I will quote the whole passage : " it is silly sooth, and dallies with the innocence of love, like the old age." " Cynthia. Well, let us to Endymion. I will not be so stately (good Endymion) not to stoop to do thee...
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Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: Delivered at ...

William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 pages
...weakness and my melancholy;" but for the satisfaction of the reader, I will quote the whole passage : " it is silly sooth, and dallies with the innocence of love, like the old age." " Cynthia. Well, let us to Endymion. I will not be so stately (good Endymion) not to stoop to do thee...
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