Don Juan 01-167
Canto the First

CLXVII

And, secondly, I pity not, because
     He had no business to commit a sin,
Forbid by heavenly, fined by human laws,
     At least 't was rather early to begin;
But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws
     So much as when we call our old debts in
At sixty years, and draw the accompts of evil,
And find a deuced balance with the devil.

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