Don Juan 01-019
Canto the First

XIX

He was a mortal of the careless kind,
     With no great love for learning, or the learn'd,
Who chose to go where'er he had a mind,
     And never dream'd his lady was concern'd;
The world, as usual, wickedly inclined
     To see a kingdom or a house o'erturn'd,
Whisper'd he had a mistress, some said two-
But for domestic quarrels one will do.

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