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O fellow come, the song we had last night:
Marke it Cesario, it is old and plaine; The Spinsters and the Knitters in the Sun, And the free maides that weaue their thred with bones, Do vse to chaunt it: it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of loue, Like the old age. Twelfth Night II.iv, ll. 930-937 |