Don Juan 03-004
Canto the Third

IV

I know not if the fault be men's or theirs;
     But one thing's pretty sure; a woman planted
(Unless at once she plunge for life in prayers)
     After a decent time must be gallanted;
Although, no doubt, her first of love affairs
     Is that to which her heart is wholly granted;
Yet there are some, they say, who have had none,
But those who have ne'er end with only one.

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
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