Edwin and Emma (Mallet, 1760)/Advertisement
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As the profits, if any, that may arise from the sale of this little poem, are intended for a charitable use; it is hoped that the writers and compilers of our periodical papers will not reprint it in any of their collections. But they are, at the same time, left at full liberty to speak of it, either with applause or blame, as they shall judge it deserving of either. The following lines from Shakespear's Twelfth Night, may very properly stand as a motto to it. The Duke, who is passionately in Love with Olivia, having desired some music to soothe his melancholy, thus addresses the person who is to entertain him,
and then, turning to his friend,
Mark it, Cesario, it is true and plain:
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.
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.