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title: "Epitaph on a Henpecked Country Squire"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1784"
location: "Mossgiel"
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/epitaph-on-a-henpecked-country-squire/"
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# Epitaph on a Henpecked Country Squire

## Poem
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.

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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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