...not simply sung at court, but by and among the people. " The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it," as Shakspeare says; and Lord Surrey indicates the same custom : " My mother's msids, when they do »it...

...Mark it, Cesario ; it is old, and plain : The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free1 maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth,9 And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.3 Clo. Are you ready,...

...I Lady cucullus non facit monachum ; that's as much to say as I wear not motley in my brain.' (b) ' The free maids that weave their thread with bones Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth.' Three other extracts were set for similar treatment ; but the two given are sufficient...

...song from Feste. Shakespeare makes it plain that Orsino is pleased by the song's old-fashionedness: 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,...

...immemorial words in Shakespeare, in Twelfth Night — " — Come, that song we had last night: Hark it, Cesario, it is old and plain; The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their threads with bones, Do use to chaunt it: it is silly-sooth,...

...canta la canzone Della notte scorsa. Ascolta, Cesario, 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. FESTE Are you ready, sir...

...they to perfection grow. Enfer Curio and Feste ORSINO 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 claims to prefer the kind of 'old and plain' song that The spinsrers and the knitrers in the sun. And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chaunt.43 Ptince Hamler, at a celebrared moment in his play, dismisses the 'low' rasre of the 'gmundlings'...

...passion much. More than light airs and recollected terms Of these most brisk and giddy-paced times . . . 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...

...can bear me / An that I owe Olivia. [H.iv.94-104] 3. 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,...