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On An Innkeeper Nicknamed The Marquis


 Here lies a mock Marquis, whose titles were shamm'd, If ever he rise, it will be to be damn'd. Also known as 'On An Innkeeper In Tarbolton'

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This is an epitaph by Robert Burns. It was written in 1785 and is read here by Alan Cumming.

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