Don Juan 02-003
Canto the Second

III

I can't say that it puzzles me at all,
     If all things be consider'd: first, there was
His lady-mother, mathematical,
     A-never mind; his tutor, an old ass;
A pretty woman (that's quite natural,
     Or else the thing had hardly come to pass);
A husband rather old, not much in unity
With his young wife-a time, and opportunity.

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