Don Juan 03-078
Canto the Third

     LXXVIII
And now they were diverted by their suite,
     Dwarfs, dancing girls, black eunuchs, and a poet,
Which made their new establishment complete;
     The last was of great fame, and liked to show it:
His verses rarely wanted their due feet;
     And for his theme-he seldom sung below it,
He being paid to satirize or flatter,
As the psalm says, "inditing a good matter."

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) 
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