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title: "Versified Note to Dr. Mackenzie, Mauchline"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1786"
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/versified-note-to-dr-mackenzie-mauchline/"
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# Versified Note to Dr. Mackenzie, Mauchline

## Poem
Friday first’s the day appointed  
By the Right Worshipful anointed,

To hold our grand procession;  
To get a blad o’ Johnie’s morals,  
And taste a swatch o’ Manson’s barrels

I’ the way of our profession.  
The Master and the Brotherhood  
Would a’ be glad to see you;  
For me I would be mair than proud

To share the mercies wi’ you.  
If Death, then, wi’ skaith, then,  
Some mortal heart is hechtin,  
Inform him, and storm him,  
That Saturday you’ll fecht him.

Robert Burns.  
Mossgiel, An. M. 5790.

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