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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. "
Mr. William Shakespeare: His Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies - Page 31
by William Shakespeare - 1767
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: To which are Added His ...

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 476 pages
...had last night : 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 chaunt it ; it is silly sooth, + And dallies with the iunocence of love, Like the old age. J Clo. Are...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1822 - 446 pages
...last night : — 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 chaunt it ; it is silly sooth,' And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.2 Clo. Are...
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The Beauties of Shakespeare: Selected from Each Play : with a General Index ...

William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1824 - 428 pages
...OF AN OLD SONG. 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 soothf, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old ageJ. SONG. Come away, come away,...
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Noontide leisure; or, Sketches in summer

Nathan Drake - 1824 - 658 pages
...heard last night: Mark it, Caesario ; 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 chaunt it : — ' and I instantly sang to my harp that old and popular ditty, ' It was the friar of...
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Noontide Leisure: Or, Sketches in Summer, Outlines from Nature and ..., Volume 1

Nathan Drake - 1824 - 670 pages
...heard last night: Mark it, Caesario ; 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 chaunt it : — ' and I instantly sang to my harp that old and popular ditty, ' It was the friar of...
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Noontide Leisure; Or, Sketches in Summer, Outlines from Nature ..., Volumes 1-2

Nathan Drake (M.D.) - 1824 - 656 pages
...heard last night: Mark it, Caesario ; 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 chaunt it : — ' and I instantly sang to my harp that old and popular ditty, « It was the friar of...
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Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical and ..., Volume 4

1826 - 508 pages
...;— " Mark it, Cesario,— it is old and plain : The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, Ami Uiu free maids that weave their thread with bones Do use to chant it : it is silly, sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Uke th* old «ge." Some of these precious relics...
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Spirit of the English Magazines

1826 - 918 pages
...LEI/ A DEVONSHIRE TRADITIOX. '•' It is old and plain ; The spinster«, and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones Do use to chant it. SHAKSPKAKE. TT was on a Saturday night, about *• the latter end of October in the year 1638, that...
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Chronicles of London Bridge

Richard Thomson - 1827 - 728 pages
...Twelfth Night : — ' 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 chatmt it ' " " Come, my good Sir," replied Mr. Postern, " no more words on't, but sing, I pray you."...
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The Legendary Cabinet: A Collection of British National Ballads, Ancient and ...

John Docwra Parry - 1829 - 460 pages
...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....
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