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FOR GAVIN HAMILTON.
[These lines allude to the persecution which Hamilton endured for presuming to ride on Sunday, and say, “damn it,” in the presence of the minister of Mauchline.]
The poor man weeps—here Gavin sleeps, Whom canting wretches blam’d: But with such as he, where’er he be, May I be sav’d or damn’d!