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Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

by Robert Burns

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On an Innkeeper Nicknamed “The Marquis”

Here lies a mock Marquis, whose titles were shamm’d, If ever he rise, it will be to be damn’d.

On Andrew Turner

In se’enteen hunder’n forty-nine, The deil gat stuff to mak a swine, An’ coost it in a corner; But wilily he chang’d his plan, An’ shap’d it something like a man, An’ ca’d it Andrew Turner.

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