Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

423 . Epigram on the Laird of Laggan

WHEN Morine, deceas’d, to the Devil went down,

’Twas nothing would serve him but Satan’s own crown;

“Thy fool’s head,” quoth Satan, “that crown shall wear never,

I grant thou’rt as wicked, but not quite so clever.”