Don Juan 03-022
Canto the Third

     XXII
The approach of home to husbands and to sires,
     After long travelling by land or water,
Most naturally some small doubt inspires-
     A female family's a serious matter
(None trusts the sex more, or so much admires-
     But they hate flattery, so I never flatter);
Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler,
And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
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