Don Juan 03-040
Canto the Third

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Perhaps you think in stumbling on this feast
     He flew into a passion, and in fact
There was no mighty reason to be pleased;
     Perhaps you prophesy some sudden act,
The whip, the rack, or dungeon at the least,
     To teach his people to be more exact,
And that, proceeding at a very high rate,
He show'd the royal penchants of a pirate.

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) 
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