🔵 'Cancelled' Robert Burns song could have cost bard his livelihood

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Jan 25, 2024

Joshua King

Joshua King

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Have a great day,

Josh


	"Burns was dependent on his excise employment and couldn’t speak as freely as he might have liked."

	The poet's crossed-out writings may have been too revolutionary to publish, it has been claimed.

"Burns was dependent on his excise employment and couldn’t speak as freely as he might have liked."

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