Epigram at Brownhill Inn

Portrait of Robert Burns
Robert Burns 1759–1796
331Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

AT 1 Brownhill we always get dainty good cheer, And plenty of bacon each day in the year; We’ve a’ thing that’s nice, and mostly in season, But why always Bacon—come, tell me a reason?

Note 1. Bacon was the name of a presumably intrusive host. The lines are said to have “afforded much amusement.”—Lang.

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