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Epigram on an Innkeeper (“The Marquis”)

A poem by Robert Burns · No. 480

Collection
Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Year
1794
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Robert Burns 1759–1796
480Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

The poem

HERE lies a mock Marquis, whose titles were shamm’d, If ever he rise, it will be to be damn’d.

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