A Sequel to Don Juan — page 179: what you’re looking at

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170 A SEQUEL TO ALL. Reader ! thou would’st not have it here related In set and formal terms, how Juan’s mind In Rose’s favour quickly terminated That strange comparison.—Oh ! dull and blind Were he who for a moment hesitated Between those characters so well defined— The one so mild and delicately tender, The other all licentiousness and splendour. XLI, The letters were official which Don Juan Received, and anxiously began to read ; And to his great surprise, ere he got through one, He found that he to Paris must proceed On an affair important though a new one, Without a single hour’s delay :—indeed, A second document was so much stronger, He dared not hesitate a moment longer. XLITI. A third despatch contained an order on A London banker for ‘‘ the one thing needful’ — - Not prayers—for courts waste little time upon ‘ Those articles, although they have a creed full ; But cash—the means that make their envoys run, And of the value of each hour be heedful ;— And Catherine was never slow to stump as Much coin as would her fayourite schemes encompass. cComichooksscom