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What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin gray, and a' that; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine, A man's a man for a' that!

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James

What tho' on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin gray, and a' that?

From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various

What tho’ on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin gray, and a’ that; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine, A man’s a man, for a’ that!

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

Here farmers gash, in ridin graith, Gaed hoddin by their cotters; There swankies young, in braw braid-claith, Are springing owre the gutters.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

Here farmers gash, in ridin’ graith Gaed hoddin by their cottars; There, swankies young, in braw braid-claith, Are springin’ o’er the gutters.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert