A robe of seeming truth and trust
[tab]Hid crafty observation;
And secret hung, with poison’d crust,
[tab]The dirk of defamation:
A mask that like the gorget show’d,
[tab]Dye-varying on the pigeon;
And for a mantle large and broad,
[tab]He wrapt him in Religion.
This work has the following connections with other works:
- The Holy Fair • Brown quoted as epigraph to Burns's poem
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