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My curse upon your whunstane hearts, Ye Enbrugh Gentry! The tythe o' what ye waste at cartes Wad stow'd his pantry!

-Burns, Robert
  'To W. Simpson, Ochiltree', stanza 4, referring to the poet Robert Fergusson, who died a pauper in the Edinburgh bedlam in1774 at the age of 24, and whom Burns considered 'my elder brother in misfortune, by far my elder brother in the muse'.

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