 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...  The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare - Page 739by William Shakespeare - 1881Full view - About this book
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...; whose fair flower, Iking once displuy'd, doth fall that very hour. Character of an old Song. Mark it, C'esario, it is old and plain : The spinsters...is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of k>v« Like the old age. Song. Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid : Fly... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 328 pages
...this play, with a preface of his own to it. " Duke. O fellow, come ; the song we had last night. Mark it, C'esario, it is old and plain ; The spinsters...bones, Do use to chant it : it is silly sooth, And dalliei with the innocence of love, .'•ike the old age. SONG. Come away, come away, death, And in... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
...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, William Dodd - Fore-edge painting - 1824 - 428 pages
...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,... | |
 | James Boaden - Actors - 1831 - 410 pages
...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 and...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... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pages
...simple. There was many an air not to be despised by the nicest taste, of which it might be said, " It is old and plain : The spinsters and the knitters...dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age." $ * Morley's ' Treatise :' 1597. t Merchant of Venice, Act v., Scene i. t Twelfth Night, Act n., Scene... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1844 - 790 pages
...Prospects of Man. VOL. XXX. SO. CLXXVI1I. CC spised by tbe nicest taste, of which it might be said, "It is old and plain : The spinsters and the knitters...dallies with the innocence of love Like the old age." * Such was the plaintive" air of, "Bobin Hood is to the greenwood gone," a line of which has been snatched... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 648 pages
...the preference to the simpler strains of an older time. What says Shakespeare ? Mark it. Cœsario. It is old and plain. The spinsters and the knitters...dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age. From Coleridge and other poets we could qnote passages very similar. Swift, who in all human probability... | |
 | David Mallet - 1849 - 160 pages
...him : The song we had last night — and then turning to his friend — 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. APPENDIX TO EDWIN AND EMMA. CRITICAL NOTICES. Edwin and Emma. 4to, 1*. Elegantly printed at Birmingham,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 772 pages
...perfection grow ! Re-enter CURIO and Clown. Duke. O fellow, come, the song we had last night: Mark it, Cesario; it is old and plain: The spinsters and...of love, Like the old age. Clo. Are you ready, sir? Duke. Ay; pr'ythee, sing. [Music. SONG. Clo. Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me... | |
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