A Sequel to Don Juan — page 186: what you’re looking at

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-— Stirs > tm, DON JUAN. 177 XLII. It puts me in good humour with mankind— The very world that has made sport of me :— I wrote about my aunt before I’d dined ; But as the verse is written, let it be: Nor can | say that I am now inclined To blot it from my page. Humanity (By which I mean frail human nature) proves A pleasure in revenge, e’en where it loves. LXIII. Meantime our hero’s carriage onwards goes To Dover ;—and wrapt up in meditation He ponders on his loved and faithful Rose With much regret, but still more admiration : He wishes she were with him—then he throws A glance on her peculiar situation, | Remembering that it would his rank disparage Were he to have a mistress in his carriage. LXIV. At dawn he entered Dover, where he found That he was doomed to meet with some delay, For there was not a single vessel bound To Calais or Boulogne until next day ; And though his major-domo went the round Of every sloop that in the harbour lay, To tempt the captains with the hope of gain, ' His strenuous endeavours all were vain. M COMmiclboOoks. conn