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Extempore Reply to an Invitation

A poem by Robert Burns · No. 411

Collection
Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Year
1793
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Robert Burns 1759–1796
411Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

The poem

THE KING’S most humble servant, I Can scarcely spare a minute; But I’ll be wi’ you by an’ by; Or else the Deil’s be in it.

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