On a Country Justice in the South.
1800.
WHAT gars yon gentry gang wi Jock,
An ca him Sir and Master?
The greatest dunce, the biggest block,
That ever Nature cuist her ;
Yet see, they've plac'd this human stock
Strict justice to dispense :
Which plainly shows yon meikle folk
Think siller stands for sense.
Written by Tannahill when he resided in England in 1800, on a country Justice of the Peace there.—Ed.
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