Living
Apology For Declining An Invitation To Dine
From Poems and Songs, 1795
Living
No more of your guests, be they titled or not,
And cookery the first in the nation;
Who is proof to thy personal converse and wit,
Is proof to all other temptation.
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MLA
Burns, Robert. “Apology For Declining An Invitation To Dine.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/burns/497/.
Chicago
Burns, Robert. “Apology For Declining An Invitation To Dine.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/burns/497/.
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