English poem

On A Person Nicknamed

THE MARQUIS.

[In a moment when vanity prevailed against prudence, this person, who kept a respectable public-house in Dumfries, desired Burns, to write his epitaph.]

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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More by Robert Burns

On A Friend.
On A Henpecked Country Squire.
On A Noisy Polemic.
On A Noted Coxcomb.
On A Person Nicknamed The Marquis.
On A Schoolmaster.
On A Scotch Bard, Gone To The West Indies.
On A Suicide.

All 924 poems by Robert Burns