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30 March, 23:27

Read the passage.

Swith! in some beggar's haffet squattle;

There ye may creep, and sprawl, and sprattle

Wi' ither kindred, jumping cattle,

In shoals and nations:

Whare horn nor bane ne'er dare unsettle

Your thick plantations.

In these lines of verse from "To a Louse" by Robert Burns, what does the speaker command the louse to do?

A. jump on some cattle

B. crawl on another lady's bonnet

C. swim in a dinner companion's dish

D. crawl on some poor beggar

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  1. 31 March, 04:18
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    The speaker commands the louse to crawl on some poor beggar.

    In "To a Louse", the narrator notices a lady in church, with a louse that is roving, unnoticed by her, around in her bonnet. The sonneteer berates the louse for not realizing how significant his host is, and then reflects that, to a louse, we are all equal prey, and that we would be disabused of our pretensions if we were to see ourselves through each other's eyes.
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