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The Poetry of Robert Burns

Edited by William Ernest Henley and Thomas F. Henderson

Burns, Robert (1759-1796)

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THE JOLLY BEGGARS

SATIRES AND VERSES

NOTES AND EPISTLES

THEATRICAL PIECES

POLITICAL PIECES

THE DEAN OF THE FACULTY

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ON JAMES GRIEVE, LAIRD OF BOGHEAD, TARBOLTON

ON WM. MUIR IN TARBOLTON MILL

ON JOHN RANKINE

ON TAM THE CHAPMAN

ON JOHN DOVE, INNKEEPER

ON A WAG IN MAUCHLINE

ON ROBERT FERGUSSON

ADDITIONAL STANZAS

FOR WILLIAM NICOL

FOR MR. WILLIAM MICHIE

FOR WILLIAM CRUICKSHANK, A.M.

FOR MR. WALTER RIDDELL

ON A NOTED COXCOMB

ON CAPT. LASCELLES

ON A GALLOWAY LAIRD

ON WM. GRAHAM OF MOSSKNOWE

ON JOHN BUSHBY OF TINWALD DOWNS

ON A SWEARING COXCOMB

ON AN INNKEEPER NICKNAMED ‘THE MARQUIS’

ON GRIZZEL GRIMME

FOR GABRIEL RICHARDSON

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ADDITIONAL LINES AT STIRLING

Rash mortal, and slanderous poet, thy name
Shall no longer appear in the records of Fame!
Dost not know that old Mansfield, who writes like the Bible,
Says, the more 'tis a truth, Sir, the more 'tis a libel?