...Vio. And so they 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...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, sir ? Duke. Ay...

...Vio. And so they 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...plain : The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And tne free maids, that weave their thread with bones, Do use In chaunt it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies...

...Vio. And so they are : alas, that thev are so ; To die, even when they to perfection grow ! Re-enter CURIO and CLOWN. Duke. O fellow, come, the song we...plain : The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And tne free maids, that weave their thread with bones, Do use to ehannt it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies...

...see ye wi' a suit on. 0' gude Braith Claith, ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF SCOTS MUSIC. Mark it, Csesario; it is old and plain, The spinsters and the knitters...maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it. SHAKESPZAIIE'S TWELFTH NIGBT. ON Scotia's plains, in days of yore, When lads and lasses tartan...

...express what we should vainly puzzle ourselves to describe, the essence of the " old and antique song." " Mark it, Cesario ; it is old and plain ; The spinsters...with bones, Do use to chaunt it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age." Ay! like gray eld fondling sunny childhood,...

...roses ; 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...maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of k>v« Like the old age. Song. Come...

...that they are so ; To die, even when they to perfection grow ! Re-enter CURIO, and C/otrn. Duke. О fellow, come, the song we had last night : — Mark...with bones, Do use to chaunt it ; it is silly sooth,* And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.6 Clo. Are you ready, sir ? Duke. Ay ; pr'ythee,...

...Shakespear's songs. One of the most beautiful of them occurs in this play, with a preface of his own to it. '' Duke. O fellow, come; the song we had last night....maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chauut it: it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age. SONG. Come...

...and recollected terms, Of these most brisk and giddy-patcd times." And again, " Mark it, Caesatio — it is old and plain : — The spinsters, and the knitters...free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do wont to sing it." Yes 1 Shakspeare has sought for the standard of taste in music in a quarter which...

...to describe, the essence of the " old and antique song." " Mark it, Cesario ; it is old and plain i The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the...maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to channt it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the iunocence of lore, Like the old age." Ay ! like...