Don Juan 01-066
Canto the First

LXVI

Julia was-yet I never could see why-
     With Donna Inez quite a favourite friend;
Between their tastes there was small sympathy,
     For not a line had Julia ever penn'd:
Some people whisper but no doubt they lie,
     For malice still imputes some private end)
That Inez had, ere Don Alfonso's marriage,
Forgot with him her very prudent carriage;

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