DEAR ———, I'll gie ye some advice,
You'll tak it no uncivil:
You shouldna paint at angels mair,
But try and paint the devil.
To paint an Angel's kittle wark,
Wi' Nick, there's little danger:
You'll easy draw a lang-kent face,
But no sae weel a stranger.—R. B.
More verses by Robert Burns
- Inscription At Friars' Carse Hermitage
- Song—o May, Thy Morn
- Song—gudewife, Count The Lawin
- Lines Of John M'Murdo, Esq.
- Song—behold The Hour, Etc. (Second Version)
