A Sequel to Don Juan — page 163: what you’re looking at

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154 A SEQUEL TO LXXXI. °Tis mean, ’tis cowardly, ’tis vile, ’tis base For man (and that it is so he knows well) To say that woman brought upon our race The toils and sufferings of earth, and hell. I extricate myself from the disgrace . By disbelieving every syllable Of that foul calumny which fixes human Delinquency and sorrow on poor Woman. LXXXIl. O brave and generous-hearted Man! from you How worthy are reproaches against her To whom yourself so often are untrue— You who first teach her footsteps how to err ! Shame on thee! could my verse thy soul imbue With half those noble sentiments which stir The lofty mind of woman, then would’st thou Blot out the calumnies you cling to now. LXXXIII. By night in London town alone there ply A hundred thousand prostitutes ;—did they Become debased through their own infamy— Or, Man, didst thou conduct them on the way ?— Speak—does the lesson show how women fiy To crime—or how false men their hopes betray ?— Of all that tribe, whose fame was once so fair, Each one, O Man, by thee was hurried there ! cComichbookss;com