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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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2.

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

III.

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ON MR. JAMES GRACIE

Gracie, thou art a man of worth,
O, be thou Dean for ever!
May he be damn'd to Hell henceforth,
Who fauts thy weight or measure!