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title: "On an Innkeeper Nicknamed “the Marquis”"
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-an-innkeeper-nicknamed-the-marquis/"
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# On an Innkeeper Nicknamed “the Marquis”

## Poem
Here lies a mock Marquis, whose titles were shamm’d,  
If ever he rise, it will be to be damn’d.

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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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