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Willow Song, sung by Desdemona; but, as Shakespeare did not even write the words of the said song, merely quoting a few lines from a long poem given in its entirety by Bishop Percy in his invaluable _Reliques_, this setting, even if contemporary, has not much to do with our subject,
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Shakespeare and Music. The other songs,
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King Stephen was a worthy peer, and
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Let me the canakin clink, clink, are both probably quotations from older songs; while the so-called
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tunes are very like the so-called
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etc. in other plays by the master. In point of fact, I have often heard an old actor sing the King Stephen lyric to the same tune as the First Gravedigger's song in _Hamlet_, and the two bear a very close resemblance to the traditional tune of
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The Babes in the Wood. Still, the so-called traditional (I am tired of writing the word) setting of
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A poor soul sat sighing