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The Poetry of Robert Burns

Edited by William Ernest Henley and Thomas F. Henderson
  
  

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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.