Robert Burns


Epitaph on William Nicol, of the High School, Edinburgh


YE maggots, feed on Nicol’s brain,
	For few sic feasts ye’ve gotten,
And fix your claws in Nicol’s hearts
	For deil a bit o’t’s rotten.

1787




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