Don Juan 01-139
Canto the First

CXXXIX

I can't tell how, or why, or what suspicion
     Could enter into Don Alfonso's head;
But for a cavalier of his condition
     It surely was exceedingly ill-bred,
Without a word of previous admonition,
     To hold a levee round his lady's bed,
And summon lackeys, arm'd with fire and sword,
To prove himself the thing he most abhorr'd.

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