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Written by Assoc for Scottish Literature on 2025-01-20 at 20:16

O man, but ye think much o’ truth;

Ye surely hae a hoard o’t

Laid up in store—for frae your youth,

Ye seldom spent a word o’t;

But falsity, ye mak’ a slave,

For every day ye wear it,

While truth, ye like your siller save,

Ay speakin’ lies, to spare it.

—“Epigram to a Liar”, by Hugh Porter (c.1780–?), the Ulster–Scots weaver-poet known as “the Bard of Moneyslane”. Published in POETICAL ATTEMPTS (1813)

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Descendants

Written by Ben Thompson 🐕 on 2025-01-20 at 21:43

@scotlit perfect.

Siller = silver ?

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Written by Assoc for Scottish Literature on 2025-01-21 at 11:30

@jbenjamint Yes – with the specific meaning in this case of silver coins, cash, money in general.

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Written by Ben Thompson 🐕 on 2025-01-21 at 11:33

@scotlit 🙏🏽

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