Don Juan 01-010
Canto the First

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His mother was a learned lady, famed
     For every branch of every science known
In every Christian language ever named,
     With virtues equall'd by her wit alone,
She made the cleverest people quite ashamed,
     And even the good with inward envy groan,
Finding themselves so very much exceeded
In their own way by all the things that she did.

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) ByronLong