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On An Innkeeper Nicknamed 'The Marquis

  

Burns Original

Standard English Translation

 

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

 

Here lies a mock Marquis, whose titles were shammed.
If ever he rise, it will be to be damned.

 

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