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title: "On Hearing It Asserted Falsehood"
subtitle: "is expressed in the Rev. Dr. Babington’s very looks"
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-hearing-it-asserted-falsehood/"
---

# On Hearing It Asserted Falsehood

### is expressed in the Rev. Dr. Babington’s very looks

## Poem
That there is a falsehood in his looks,  
I must and will deny:  
They tell their Master is a knave,  
And sure they do not lie.

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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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