Don Juan 01-183
Canto the First

CLXXXIII

None can say that this was not good advice,
     The only mischief was, it came too late;
Of all experience 't is the usual price,
     A sort of income-tax laid on by fate:
Juan had reach'd the room-door in a trice,
     And might have done so by the garden-gate,
But met Alfonso in his dressing-gown,
Who threaten'd death-so Juan knock'd him down.

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