Apology for Declining an Invitation to Dine
The speaker dismisses titled guests and first-rate cookery as inducements to dine, declaring that anyone who can resist the host's conversation and wit can resist every other temptation.
By Robert Burns · Genre: Poetry, Epigram · 46 words
First lines
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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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Robert Burns
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Poetry, Epigram
- Length: 46 words
- Structure: 1 section, 1 paragraphs
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Genres
- Poetry — Four verse lines dismiss distinguished guests and fine cookery while complimenting the host's conversation and wit.
- Epigram — The closing claim delivers a pointed compliment: anyone who resists the host's conversation and wit can resist every other temptation.
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dinner invitations · hospitality · conversation · wit · light verse