Don Juan 01-140
Canto the First

CXL

Poor Donna Julia, starting as from sleep
     (Mind-that I do not say-she had not slept),
Began at once to scream, and yawn, and weep;
     Her maid Antonia, who was an adept,
Contrived to fling the bed-clothes in a heap,
     As if she had just now from out them crept:
I can't tell why she should take all this trouble
To prove her mistress had been sleeping double.

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