A Sequel to Don Juan — page 243: what you’re looking at

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934 A SEQUEL TO LXXXIV. We said the Tuileries were gay, what time The lady and th’ Accuser parted there .— Perchance it is the nature of the clime That makes the people happier than elsewhere ; And, were it not a very heinous crime To run down one’s own country, I declare That I would sooner be a Frenchman, full Of spirits, than a surly sour John Bull. LXXXV. "Tis laughable to see John Bull affect Profound contempt for all things Gallican ; And yet we universally detect Him borrowing from the French whene’er he can. Mark how he treats those fashions with respect Modelled upon the last Parisian plan ; And hear him, when he ’s talking, introduce French phrases wholesale into common use. LXXXVI. Open the popular novels of the day— Bulwer’s and Blessington’s—and you will find Their authors ever travelling from their way To bring French idioms in of every kind. John Bull too lately has ta’en much to play, That being a vice in Paris deemed refined ; And he can scarcely eat a chop unless it Has had a French artiste (well-paid) to dress it. COMMGEMIOO KS. COLN