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The Poetry of Robert Burns

Edited by William Ernest Henley and Thomas F. Henderson
  
  

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EPITAPH ON A HENPECKED SQUIRE

As father Adam first was fool'd,
A case that's still too common,
Here lies a man a woman rul'd:
The Devil ruled the woman.