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" 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 Liberal: Verse and Prose from the South - Page 86
1822
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 85

1820 - 608 pages
...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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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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Minstrelsy of the Scottish border: consisting of historical and ..., Volume 1

Scottish border - 1821 - 718 pages
...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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The Caledonian Muse:: A Chronological Selection of Scotish Poetry from the ...

Joseph Ritson - 1821 - 280 pages
...the futr, jfnd ibi free maids that ,weave their thread with bongs, Do ufi to cbaunt it. It is Jilly Sooth, „ And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age. SHAKES. TWELFTH N1»HT. FAR in the windings of a vale, Faft by a fhckering wood, The fafe retreat of...
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The Vision; Or Hell, Purgatory and Paradise of Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri - 1822 - 398 pages
...will defeated hefore Parma, in 1248 G. Tillani, lih. vi. op. 35. t The old time.] L'anttea etn. It is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age. Shakipearc, Twelfth Night, act ii. sc. 4. V Thegoed l,htrwiti.] Gherardodi Camino, of Trevigi. He ii...
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The London Magazine, Volume 5

1822 - 734 pages
...knitters in the snn, And the free maids that weave their threads with bone, Do use to chaunt it. It is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age. Syr Martyn is the longest of his poems. He could not have chosen a subject in itself much less capable...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1822 - 446 pages
...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.2 Clo. Are you ready, sir ? Duke. Ay ; pr'ythee, sing. [Mmt. SONG. Clo. Came away, come away, death,...
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The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare, Part 1

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 370 pages
...the knitters in the sun, And the free maids,that weave theirthread with bones, Uo use tochauntit; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age. Clo. Are you ready, sir? Duke. Ay; pr'ythec, sing ! [HSiuic. SONG. Clo. Come away, come away, death,...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Life of Shakespeare. Seven ages ...

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 544 pages
...knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones Do nse to chaunt it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.' " After reading other parts of this play, and particularly the garden scene where Malvolio picks up...
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