 | Robert Fergusson, James Gray - 1821 - 292 pagina’s
...see ye wi' a. suit on O' gude Braid Claith. ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF SCOTS MUSIC. Mark it, Ca?sario ! it is old and plain, The spinsters and the knitters...weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it. Shakespeare's Twelfth Klgfit. ON Scotia's plains, in days of yore, When lads an' lasses tartan wore,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pagina’s
...formerly, gave birth to the foregoing Poem. MAI-LET. EDWIN AND EMMA '. Mark it, Cesario, it is true and plain ; The spinsters and the knitters in the...dallies with the innocence of love. Like the old age. SHAKSH. Twelfth Night. FAR in the windings of a vale, Fast by a sheltering wood, The safe retreat of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1822 - 446 pagina’s
...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 : — Mark...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 518 pagina’s
...alas, that they are so ; To die, even when" they to perfection grow ! Re^nter Curio, and Clown. Duke. O fellow, come, the song we had last night : — Mark...free maids, that weave their thread with bones,' Do u«e to chaunt it ; it is silly sooth,10 And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.11... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1824 - 428 pagina’s
...and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women's are. CHARACTER OF AN OLD SONG. Mark it, Cesario ; it is old and plain : The spinsters...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, death,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 544 pagina’s
...most beautiful of Shakspeare's Songs occurs in this play with a preface of his own to it. ' Duke. O fellow, come, the song we had last night : — Mark...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.' "... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 540 pagina’s
...most heautiful of Shakspeare's Songs occurs in this play with a preface of his own to it. ' Vuke. O fellow, come, the song we had last night : — Mark...sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with hones Do use to chaunt it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old... | |
 | Richard Thomson - 1827 - 728 pagina’s
...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."... | |
 | James Boaden - 1831 - 410 pagina’s
...the song, and his appearance draws another beautiful remark from the Duke to his young favourite. " Mark it, Cesario, it is old and plain ; The spinsters...dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age." And then follows the song written by Shakspeare, " Come away, come away, death," which wandered about... | |
 | George Hogarth - 1835 - 486 pagina’s
...and giddy-paced times ; — such songs as that which is described by the enamoured Duke Orsino; — Mark it, Cesario; it is old and plain: The spinsters...maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chaunt it. But if it requires little art and study to sing these ancient and simple airs, to sing the... | |
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O fellow, come, the song we 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 chant it: it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence... 
