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title: "Apology for Declining an Invitation to Dine"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1795"
location: "Dumfries"
source: "Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns"
source_url: "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt"
canonical_url: "https://robert-burns.com/poems/apology-for-declining-an-invitation-to-dine/"
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# Apology for Declining an Invitation to Dine

## Poem
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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Source: [Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt)  
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