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C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Songs and Their Settings: Iago’s Soldier-Songs

By William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

From ‘Othello

AND let me the canakin clink, clink;

And let me the canakin clink:

A soldier’s a man;

A life’s but a span:

Why then let a soldier drink.

KING STEPHEN was a worthy peer,

His breeches cost him but a crown;

He held them sixpence all too dear,

With that he called the tailor—lown.

He was a wight of high renown,

And thou art but of low degree:

’Tis pride that pulls the country down,

Then take thine auld cloak about thee.