Don Juan 04-116
Canto the Fourth
 
 CXVI
 
But for the destiny of this young troop,
 How some were bought by pachas, some by Jews,
How some to burdens were obliged to stoop,
 And others rose to the command of crews
As renegadoes; while in hapless group,
 Hoping no very old vizier might choose,
The females stood, as one by one they pick'd 'em,
To make a mistress, or fourth wife, or victim:

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) 
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