Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 50. Another on the said Occasion |
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| ONE Queen Artemisia, as old stories tell, | |
| When deprived of her husband she loved so well, | |
| In respect for the love and affection he show’d her, | |
| She reduc’d him to dust and she drank up the powder. | |
| But Queen Netherplace, of a diff’rent complexion, | 5 |
| When called on to order the fun’ral direction, | |
| Would have eat her dead lord, on a slender pretence, | |
| Not to show her respect, but—to save the expense! | |
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