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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 |
- Woodcut from the Nuw Modelbuch, 1561
- Ladies in a garden from the Album Amicorum of Gervasius Fabricius, c. 1603-1637
- The Lacemaker by Nicolaes Maes, 1650s
- The Lacemaker by Caspar Netscher, c. 1662-1664
- The Lacemaker by Jan Vermeer, 1669-70 (see details here and here)
- The Lacemaker by Frans van Mieris the Elder
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