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Canto the Third

VIII

There's doubtless something in domestic doings
     Which forms, in fact, true love's antithesis;
Romances paint at full length people's wooings,
     But only give a bust of marriages;
For no one cares for matrimonial cooings,
     There's nothing wrong in a connubial kiss:
Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife,
He would have written sonnets all his life?

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
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