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Reading edition
THE PARSON’S LOOKS.
[Some sarcastic person said, in Burns’s hearing, that there was falsehood in the Reverend Dr. Burnside’s looks: the poet mused for a moment, and replied in lines which have less of truth than point.]
That there is falsehood in his looks I must and will deny; They say their master is a knave— And sure they do not lie.