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Robert Burns (1759–1796).  Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics.  1909–14.
 
48. Epitaph on a Henpecked Squire
 
 
AS father Adam first was fool’d,
  (A case that’s still too common,)
Here lies man a woman ruled,
  The devil ruled the woman.
 

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