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title: "On a Swearing Coxcomb"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1794"
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/on-a-swearing-coxcomb/"
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# On a Swearing Coxcomb

## Poem
Here cursing, swearing Burton lies,  
A buck, a beau, or “Dem my eyes!”  
Who in his life did little good,  
And his last words were “Dem my blood!”

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Source: [Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt)  
Canonical HTML: https://robert-burns.com/poems/on-a-swearing-coxcomb/