SCOTISH SONGS, ANCIENT AND MODERN; WITH CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES, BY ROBERT BURNS. PRINTED FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, STRAND. 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; * In the drinking scene in Othello. This song was recovered by Dr. Percy, and preserved by him in his Reliques of Antient Poetry. |