Apology for Declining an Invitation to Dine

Apology for Declining an Invitation to Dine by Robert Burns

No more of your guests, be they titled or not,

And cookery the first in the nation;

Who is proof to thy personal converse and wit,

Is proof to all other temptation.

This work published before January 1, 1923 is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.