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Epigram—The Toad-eater

by Robert Burns, 1791

Of Lordly acquaintance you boast,
  And the Dukes that you dined wi' yestreen,
Yet an insect's an insect at most,
  Tho' it crawl on the curl of a Queen!

Published in Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
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