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?

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Alexis Bautista

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15 April, 04:15

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?

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Julian Bauer · Answer 1

In these lines of verse from "To a Louse" by Robert Burns, the speaker commands the louse to:

A. swim in a dinner companion’s dish

The word "shoal" as used in the verse, denotes a group of cattles eating in the "thick plantations" referring to the dish.