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The Poetry of Robert Burns

Edited by William Ernest Henley and Thomas F. Henderson
Burns, Robert (1759-1796)
  
[epigraph]
  
[dedication]

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VOLUME IV

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REPLY TO THE THREAT OF A CENSORIOUS CRITIC

With Æsop's lion, Burns says:—‘Sore I feel
Each other blow: but damn that ass's heel!’
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