“Dweller in yon dungeon dark,
Hangman of creation, mark!
Who in widow weeds appears,
Laden with unhonoured years,
Noosing with care a bursting purse,
Baited with many a deadly curse?”

—  Robert Burns

Ode on Mrs. Oswald.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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