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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. "
Notes Upon Some of the Obscure Passages in Shakespeare's Plays: With Remarks ... - Page 110
by John Howe Baron Chedworth - 1805 - 375 pages
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: Sketch of the life of Shakspeare. Tempest ...

William Shakespeare - 1811 - 454 pages
...are: alas, that they are so; To die, even when they to perfection grow! Re-enter Curio, and Clown. Duke. O fellow, come, the song we had last night :...sun, And the free maids, that weave their thread with honest, Do use to chaunt it; it is silly soothj, And dallies with the innocence of love. Like the old...
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Twelfth-night. Measure for measure. Much ado about nothing. Midsummer-night ...

William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 520 pages
...are : alas, that they are so ; To die, even when they to perfection grow ! Re-enter CURIO, and Clown. Duke. O fellow, come, the song we had last night :...The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free6 maids, that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chaunt it ; it is silly sooth,7 And dallies...
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Literary life and select works of Benjamin Stillingfleet [ed. by W. Coxe].

Benjamin Stillingfleet - 1811 - 480 pages
...sensations. " The ploughman whistling o'er the furrow'd land/' *' The milk-maid singing blithe," " The spinsters and the knitters in the Sun, And the free maids, that weave their thread with bone . Chaunting," were objects that drew the attention of two of the greatest poets the world has...
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Select Reviews, and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines, Volume 5

Enos Bronson - 1811 - 456 pages
...fragments, which descend by tradition, and are early imprinted on every mind ¡ — " Which spinners and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids, that weave their thread with bones, »o use to chant of." Mr. Cromek next proceeds to investigate some of the causes which may have led...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1811 - 460 pages
...fellow, come, the song we had last night : — Mark it, Cesarto; it is old and plain : The spiusters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids, that weave their thread with bo nest, Do use to channt it; it is silly sooth;, And dallies with the innocence of love, lake the...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: In Nine Volumes, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1810 - 434 pages
...are : alas, that they are so ; To die, even when they to perfection grow ! Re-enter CURIO, and Clown. Duke. O fellow, come, the song we had last night :...weave their thread with bones, Do use to chaunt it ; it is silly sooth, s And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age. • Clo. Are you ready,...
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Select Reviews, Volume 5

1812 - 470 pages
...fragments, which descend by tradition, and are early imprinted on every mind ; — " Which Spinners and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids, that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant of." Mr. Cromek next proceeds to investigate some of the causes which may have led to the formation...
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The poetical works of Robert Ferguson, with his life, Volume 2

Robert Fergusson - 1812 - 274 pages
...cou'd see ye wi' a suit on O' gude Braid Claith. ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF SCOTS MUSIC. Mark it Caesario ; it is old and plain, The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weace their thread with bones, Do use to chant it. SHAKESPEARE'S TWELFTH NIGHT. Scotia's plains, in...
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Fitz-Gwarine: A Ballad of the Welsh Border; in Three Cantos. With Other ...

John Freeman Milward Dovaston - 1812 - 312 pages
...Reliques of the Bards , and the collection of Parry. PART I. " it i> old and plain, J • The ip lusters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread* with bone.1^ Do use to chaunt it ; it is silly sooth.1' TWILFTK N1CBT. ; Crepe Baroni A BALLAD, IN IMITATION...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1813 - 942 pages
...To die, even when Uu>v to perfrction grow ! H&enter Curio and Clown, iike. O fellow, come, the »ong we had last night' —Mark it, Cesario ; it is old,...and plain : The spinsters and the knitters in the >un, And the free maids that weavetheir thread with boo* Do useito chaunt it ; it is silly sooth. And...
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