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Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

410 . Epigram—Kirk and State Excisemen

YE men of wit and wealth, why all this sneering

’Gainst poor Excisemen? Give the cause a hearing:

What are your Landlord’s rent-rolls?—Taxing ledgers!

What Premiers?—What ev’n Monarchs?—Mighty Gaugers!

Nay, what are Priests? (those seeming godly wise-men,)

What are they, pray, but Spiritual Excisemen!