Don Juan 02-216
Canto the Second

CCXVI

In the mean time, without proceeding more
     In this anatomy, I've finish'd now
Two hundred and odd stanzas as before,
     That being about the number I'll allow
Each canto of the twelve, or twenty-four;
     And, laying down my pen, I make my bow,
Leaving Don Juan and Haidee to plead
For them and theirs with all who deign to read.

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