SCOTISH SONGS, ANCIENT AND MODERN; WITH CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES, By J. M'CREERY, Black-Horse-Court, Fleet-Street. 1810. A PART of this old song, according to the English set of it, is quoted in Shakspeare.* In winter when the rain rain'd cauld, My Cromie is an useful cow, And she is come of a good kyne; Aft has she wet the bairns' mou, And I am laith that she shou'd tyne In the drinking scene in Othello. This song was recovered by Dr. Percy, and preserved by him in his Reliques of Antient Poetry. |