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“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.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 4.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0bd24a9ca283f7ec69e0be50e138c23eb1da6bcf88fc908d5a078c7eb813a3c7
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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