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Canto the Third

     XXV
And oh! ye gentlemen who have already
     Some chaste liaison of the kind-I mean
An honest friendship with a married lady-
     The only thing of this sort ever seen
To last-of all connections the most steady,
     And the true Hymen (the first's but a screen)-
Yet for all that keep not too long away,
I've known the absent wrong'd four times a day.

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
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