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title: "Versified Reply to an Invitation"
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-reply-to-an-invitation/"
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# Versified Reply to an Invitation

## Poem
Sir,

Yours this moment I unseal,  
And faith I’m gay and hearty!  
To tell the truth and shame the deil,  
I am as fou as Bartie:  
But Foorsday, sir, my promise leal,  
Expect me o’ your partie,  
If on a beastie I can speel,  
Or hurl in a cartie.

Yours,

Robert Burns.  
Mauchlin, Monday night, 10 o’clock.

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