Don Juan 02-124
Canto the Second

CXXIV

I'll tell you who they were, this female pair,
     Lest they should seem princesses in disguise;
Besides, I hate all mystery, and that air
     Of clap-trap which your recent poets prize;
And so, in short, the girls they really were
     They shall appear before your curious eyes,
Mistress and maid; the first was only daughter
Of an old man who lived upon the water.

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