"Mark it, Cesario, it is old 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."
I think in these lines Orsino is telling Viola to listen carefully to the song that the fool is about to sing. In the olden days, knitters and spinsters used to sing this song and it was about love. Orsino wants to hear this song because it reminds him of a simpler time, when his love wasn't so complex and complicated.
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