...are; alas, that they are so - 40 To die, even when they to perfection grow. Enter CURIO and FESTE DUKE O fellow, come, the song we had last night. Mark it,...knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave dieir direads with bones, Do use to chant it; it is silly soodi, And dallies with the innocence of...

...paced times', 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...silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, 1 '.ike the old age . Act ii Sciv Orsino is surprised when Viola talks herself with such feeling about...

...lady; old cronies together in a tavern were expected to troll catches over their pots of ale. Even the 'spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones' were accustomed to lighten their labours with song. Songs in Shakespeare's plays could be as natural...

...Night could be pointed to as an indication that I'm wrong in my reading of the poem: Mark it, Caesario; 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 chant it. Epigraphs are printed, literary devices. But, if my notion...

...alas, that they are so; To die, even when they to perfection grow! Re-enter CURIO and Clown DUKE ORSINO O, fellow, come, the song we had last night. Mark it, Cesario, it is old and plain; 25 30 35 40 Some BASlCS... Points to think about when reading this passage: What do we know so far...

...people knitting four or five in a company under the hedges'. And Shakespeare's Orsino refers casually to 'The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, | And...the free maids that weave their thread with bones', singing old songs as they work together. 118 Monotonous work such as knitting and spinning devoured...

...peasant, had found music as much an habitual part of his occupation as was eating or drinking or working. O, fellow, come, the song we had last night. Mark...their thread with bones Do use to chant it. It is not only that song and music irradiate these plays — the very clown of one of them has almost lost...

...of cheating time, of holding human experience in permanent form. Orsino says of 'Come away death', Mark it, Cesario ; it is old and plain ; The spinsters...their thread with bones, Do use to chant it. ... (it. iv. 42-5) It has survived through time; it can entertain the simplest folk of the working-day world...

...that they are so, To die even when they to perfection grow! Enter Curio and ^Feste, the FooO ORSINO O, fellow, come, the song we had last night. — Mark...and plain; The spinsters and the knitters in the sun 50 And the free maids that weave their thread with bones Do use to chant it. It is silly sooth, And...