504. Apology to Mr. Syme for not dining with him

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504. Apology to Mr. Syme for not dining with him by Robert Burns

 NO more of your guests, be they titled or not,
 And cookery the first in the nation;
Who is proof to thy personal converse and wit,
 Is proof to all other temptation.

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