166. Epitaph for William Nicol, High School, Edinburgh
YE maggots, feed on Nicol’s brain, For few sic feasts you’ve gotten; And fix your claws in Nicol’s heart, For deil a bit o’t’s rotten.
Robert Burns
YE maggots, feed on Nicol’s brain, For few sic feasts you’ve gotten; And fix your claws in Nicol’s heart, For deil a bit o’t’s rotten.
Imagine the most backhanded tombstone inscription you can think of. Robert Burns wrote this one for William Nicol, a notoriously harsh schoolteacher he couldn’t stand.
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