Robert W. Service

The Argument

Said Jock McBrown to Tam McSmith,
“A little bet I’m game to take on,
That I can scotch this Shakespeare myth
And prove Will just a stoodge for Bacon.”
 
Said Tam McSmith to Jock McBrown,
“Ye gyke, I canna let ye rave on.
See here, I put a shilling down:
My betting’s on the Bard of Avon.”
 
Said Jock McBrown to Tam McSmith,
“Come on, ye’ll pay a braw wee dramlet;
Bacon’s my bet– the proof herewith . . .
He called his greatest hero– HAMlet.”

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