 Tis true : there's magic in the web of it : A sibyl, that had number'd in the world The sun to course two hundred compasses, In her prophetic fury sew'd the work ; The worms were hallow'd that did breed the silk ; And it was dyed in mummy which the skilful...  Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society - Page 32by Gypsy Lore Society - 1889Full view - About this book
 | Carol Chillington Rutter - Body, Human, in literature - 2001 - 244 pages
...magic in the web of it; A sibyl . . . In her prophetic fury sew'd the work; The worms were hallow'd that did breed the silk, And it was dyed in mummy, which the skilful Conserve of maidens' hearts. (3.4.54-73) Finally, the story of the life retold, a narrative that makes... | |
 | Kenneth Gross - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 304 pages
...sun to course two hundred compasses, In her prophetic fury sewed the work; The worms were hallowed that did breed the silk, And it was dyed in mummy, which the skilful Conserved of maidens' hearts. (57-77) Kenneth Burke hears within this speech "the sinister invitation... | |
 | Carol Chillington Rutter - Body, Human, in literature - 2001 - 244 pages
...magic in the web of it; A sibyl . . . In her prophetic fury sew'd the work; The worms were hallow'd that did breed the silk, And it was dyed in mummy, which the skilfiil Conserve of maidens' hearts. (3.4.54-73) Finally, the story of the life retold, a narrative... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 212 pages
...sun to course two hundred compasses, i\ In her prophetic fury sewed the work; The worms were hallowed that did breed the silk; And it was dyed in mummy which the skillful 74 Conserved of maidens' hearts. DESDEMONA I' faith? Is't true? OTHELLO Most veritable. Therefore... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - Drama - 2002 - 348 pages
...sun to course two hundred compasses, In her prophetic fury sew'd the work. The worms were hallow' d that did breed the silk; And it was dyed in mummy which the skilful Conserv'd of maidens' hearts. Such speeches are lost on a modern audience in a furniture1 Byron observed the ethnological exactitude... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2002 - 196 pages
...compasses, In her prophetic fury sew'd the work; The worms were hallow'd that did breed the silk, 70 And it was dyed in mummy, which the skilful Conserv'd of maidens' hearts. Desdemona I'faith, is't true? Othello Most veritable; therefore look to't well. Desdemona Then would... | |
 | Arthur F. Kinney - Drama - 2004 - 198 pages
...The sun to course two hundred compasses In her prophetic fury sewed the work. The worms were hallowed that did breed the silk, And it was dyed in mummy, which the skilful Conserved of maidens' hearts. When Desdemona in astonishment replies, "I'faith, is't true?" Othello... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Steven Croft - Drama - 2004 - 212 pages
...The sun to course two hundred compasses In her prophetic fury sewed the work; The worms were hallowed that did breed the silk; And it was dyed in mummy, which the skilful Conserved of maidens' hearts. DESDEMONA I' faith, is 't true? 70 OTHELLO Most veritable. Therefore... | |
 | Anna Murphy Jameson - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 472 pages
...The sun to make two hundred compasses, In her prophetic fury sew'd the work: The worms were hallowed that did breed the silk, And it was dyed in mummy, which the skilful Conserv'd of maidens' hearts. DESDEMONA. Indeed! is 't true? OTHELLO. Most veritable, therefore look to 't well. DESDEMONA. Then... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 224 pages
...sun to course two hundred compasses, In her prophetic fury sewed the work: The worms were hallowed that did breed the silk, And it was dyed in mummy, which the skilful Conserved of maidens' hearts. (III.iv.55-75) The handkerchief, of course, symbolises love; but the... | |
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