A Sequel to Don Juan — page 129: what you’re looking at

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120 ! A SEQUEL TO ' CXXIX. Rose ne’er appeared so beautiful as when She hastened to dispel her lover’s fears, ~ And throw a veil upon the past ;—and then From her sweet eyes he kissed away the tears. Juan was now the happiest of men !— Though woman’s anger for a season sears The tender heart—yet still the wound may prove The anodyne of her returning love ! CXXX. Now mutual joys and miseries revealing, The lovers in long conversation sate :— Confessing all his faults—not e’en concealing Th’ excesses he had plunged into of late, Juan displayed a very proper feeling— A fact which I am highly pleased to state, Because ’twill interest the ladies in him, And for his former faults their pardon win him. CXXAXI. But ladies now-a-days are more elastic In their ideas than they were wont to be In virtue’s cause grown less enthusiastic, They wink at faults which all the world can see. No longer with a prudery fantastic Do they expel from their society The gentlernan whose life’s a little looser Than it should be, and who’s a known seducer. (©) 6)(00) (© S