TAK YOUR AULD CLOAK ABOUT YE.
A part of this old song, according to the English set of it, is quoted in Shakspeare.
YE GODS, WAS STREPHON’S PICTURE BLEST?
Tune—“Fourteenth of October.”
The title of this air shows that it alludes to the famous king Crispian, the patron of the honourable corporation of shoemakers.—St. Crispian’s day falls on the fourteenth of October old style, as the old proverb tells:
“On the fourteenth of October
Was ne’er a sutor sober.”