Don Juan 01-138
Canto the First

CXXXVIII

By this time Don Alfonso was arrived,
     With torches, friends, and servants in great number;
The major part of them had long been wived,
     And therefore paused not to disturb the slumber
Of any wicked woman, who contrived
     By stealth her husband's temples to encumber:
Examples of this kind are so contagious,
Were one not punish'd, all would be outrageous.

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