That's me, Marje! ("The Dark, Slender Laddie", sometimes regarded as a way of describing a pint of Guinness, but actually - in the original Eighteenth-century song - a kind of demon, or spirit, of drink itself) I think Burns would really be TWO centuries after Shakespeare, by the way, though I can see how poets like Milton and Marvell and Dryden and Rochester &c, themselves around a century before Burns, have got significant similarities to Shk.

I'd intended something here about the ambiguity of the line, "It's comin yet, for aa that" at the end of the song, at least as I see it, but alas my time here has run out for today,

ABCD