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My imprudent lines were answered, very petulantly, by somebody, I believe, a Rev. Mr. Hamilton. In a MS., where I met the answer, I wrote below: -
With Esop's lion, Burns says: Sore I feel / Each other's scorn, but damn that ass' heel!