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

48 . Epitaph on a Henpecked Squire

AS father Adam first was fool’d,

(A case that’s still too common,)

Here lies man a woman ruled,

The devil ruled the woman.