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But fare-you-well, Auld Nickie-Ben! O, wad ye tak a thought and men’! Ye aiblins might—I dinna ken— Still hae a stake: I’m wae to think upo’ yon den, Ev’n for your sake!
But fare-you-well, Auld Nickie-Ben! O, wad ye tak a thought and men’! Ye aiblins might—I dinna ken— Still hae a stake: I’m wae to think upo’ yon den, Ev’n for your sake!
Approximate author period: c. 1777 AD · early modern
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- Robert Burns
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- Approximate author period: c. 1777 AD · early modern
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 41 · printed citation: Robert Burns (Address to the Deil). · compiler notes excluded
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