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Canto the First

CVII

She thought of her own strength, and Juan's youth,
     And of the folly of all prudish fears,
Victorious virtue, and domestic truth,
     And then of Don Alfonso's fifty years:
I wish these last had not occurr'd, in sooth,
     Because that number rarely much endears,
And through all climes, the snowy and the sunny,
Sounds ill in love, whate'er it may in money.

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) ByronLong