Knitting Club

Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, sc 2:

To hold you in perpetual amity,
To make you brothers, and to knit your hearts
With an unslipping knot, take Antony
Octavia to his wife; whose beauty claims
No worse a husband than the best of m

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

I, i:HERMIA. My good Lysander!

I swear to thee by Cupid’s strongest bow,

By his best arrow, with the golden head,

By the simplicity of Venus’ doves,

By that which knitteth souls and prospers loves,

And by that fire which burn’d the Carthage Queen,

II, 2:

O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence!
Love takes the meaning in love’s conference.
I mean, that my heart unto yours is knit
So that but one heart we can make of it;

IV, i:

THESEUS Fair lovers, you are fortunately met:
Of this discourse we more will hear anon.
Egeus, I will overbear your will;
For in the temple by and by with us
These couples shall eternally be knit:
And, for the morning now is something worn,
Our purposed hunting shall be set aside.V, 1 :

Thisbe
O wall, full often hast thou heard my moans,
For parting my fair Pyramus and me!
My cherry lips have often kiss’d thy stones,
Thy stones with lime and hair knit up in thee. The Tempest, III, 3:

My high charms work
And these mine enemies are all knit up
In their distractions; they now are in my power;

From Act II, Scene 2, Macbeth

Methought I heard a voice cry ‘Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep’, the innocent sleep,
Sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleeve of care,
The death of each day’s life, sore labour’s bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course

How many people realize that sleave, as the word was spelled in Shakespeare’s work, means, not part of a shirt, but a knot or twist of silk thread?

The spinsters and the knitters in the sun Twelfth Night: II, iv

This royal hand and mine are newly knit, King John: III, i
O, let me teach you how to knit again Titus Andronicus: V, iii
For ever knit. Macbeth: III, i
As he began, and not unknit himself Coriolanus: IV, ii
Yet who than he more mean?–to knit their souls, Cymbeline: II, iii
Will knit and break religions, bless the accursed, Timon of Athens: IV, iii
Why doth the great duke humphrey knit his brows, King Henry VI, part II: I, ii
When peers thus knit, a kingdom ever stands. Pericles, Prince of Tyre: II, iv
What say you to it? will you again unknit King Henry IV, part I: V, i
To knit in her their best perfections. Pericles, Prince of Tyre: I, i
Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit, Sonnets: XXVI
Thou smiling while he knit his angry brows: King Henry VI, part III: II, ii
Then is caesar and he for ever knit together. Antony and Cleopatra: II, vi
The earl of armagnac, near knit to charles, King Henry VI, part I: V, i
The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily Toilus and Cressida: II, iii
That knit your sinews to the strength of mine. King John: V, ii
She can knit him a stock? The Two Gentlemen of Verona: III, i
On which heaven rides, knit all the greekish ears Toilus and Cressida: I, iii
O well-knit samson! strong-jointed samson! I do Love’s Labour’s Lost: I, ii
Not to knit my soul to an approved wanton. Much Ado About Nothing: IV, i
No, girl, i’ll knit it up in silken strings The Two Gentlemen of Verona: II, vii
Marcus, unknit that sorrow-wreathen knot: Titus Andronicus: III, ii
If thou hadst hands to help thee knit the cord. Titus Andronicus: II, iv
I like it well. france, shall we knit our powers King John: II, i
I’ll have this knot knit up to-morrow morning. Romeo and Juliet: IV, ii
I knit my handercher about your brows, King John: IV, i
He knits his brow and shows an angry eye, King Henry VI, part II: III, i
Have robb’d my strong-knit sinews of their strength, King Henry VI, part III: II, iii
Have knit again, and fleet, threatening most sea-like. Antony and Cleopatra: III, xiii
Friend and I confess me knit to thy deserving with Othello: I, iii
Fie, fie! unknit that threatening unkind brow, The Taming of the Shrew: V, ii
But lately splinter’d, knit, and join’d together, King Richard III: II, ii
And these mine enemies are all knit up The Tempest: III, iii
And large proportion of his strong-knit limbs. King Henry VI, part I: II, iii
And knit our powers to the arm of peace. King Henry IV, part II: IV, i
‘item: she can knit.’ The Two Gentlemen of Verona: III, i
Much. no, he shall not knit a knot in his fortunes Merry Wives of Windsor: III, ii
knit earth and heaven together! King Henry VI, part II: V, ii
knits her brows. King Henry VI, part III: III, ii
Garters of an indifferent knit: let them curtsy The Taming of the Shrew: IV, i