knittinge

By the same token, the very balance of the phrase "neither take nor giue" typifies the symmetries that so strongly characterize Moulsworth's entire poem, and when she refers to the possibility of "knittinge" a potential "fourth knott" (l. 104), she not only plays with the similar sounds of verb and noun but also glances back at her very first marriage ( "My first knott"; l.

My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem 1993

Butt in the Meane tyme this must be my care of knittinge here a fourth knott to beware

My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem 1993