 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 482 psl.
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 996 psl.
...alas, that they are so ; To die, even when they to perfection grow ! Re-enter Coaio and Clown. Dalu. d strong. War. It cannot be, Aad me free maids, that weave their thread with bones, Lte me to chaunt it ; it is silly sooth, And... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 548 psl.
...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 : Mark it, Cesario...The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free5 maids that weave their thread with bones, 4 ie consumed, worn out. s ie chaste maids, employed... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 544 psl.
...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 : Mark it, Cesario;...The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free5 maids that weave their thread with bones, 4 ie consumed, worn out. 5 ie chaste maids, employed... | |
 | William Child Green - 1826 - 606 psl.
...Arabella Thompson. 23. 3 A 538 THE WOODLAND FAMILY. CHAPTER LV. " Mark it, Cxsario, it is true and plain : The spinsters, and the knitters in the...free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use lu cbaunt it." SHAKiPEAEE. As soon as they were gone, Mountdale summoned his valet, and ordered him... | |
 | 1826 - 918 psl.
...fate That waiti fidelity. 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... | |
 | 1826 - 508 psl.
...popular in the days of Shakspeare, and of which the poet himself gives so interesting a character ; " 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 540 psl.
...are so ; To die, even when they to perfection grow ! Re-enter CORIO and Clown. Duke. O fello w,come, the song we had last night : Mark it, Cesario ; it is old, and plain : The spiusters and the knitters in the sun, And the free5 maids that weave their thread with bones, 4 ie... | |
 | Richard Thomson - 1827 - 728 psl.
...of nothing which so well characterises it, as that fine description of a popular ballad in Twelfth Night : ' Mark it, Cesario, it is old and plain;...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 - 648 psl.
...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... | |
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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. 
