A Man's a Man for A' That
Rank is but the guinea's stamp, and the honest poverty that hangs its head is worth more than the silks, the wine and the birkie called a lord who struts and stares and is still a coof for all that. A prince can make a belted knight, a marquis, duke and a' that, but sense and worth are above his gift and no patent covers them. Written in the year of the Scottish sedition trials, and sung at the opening of the Scottish Parliament two centuries afterward.
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