Don Juan 03-041
Canto the Third

     XLI
You're wrong.-He was the mildest manner'd man
     That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat:
With such true breeding of a gentleman,
     You never could divine his real thought;
No courtier could, and scarcely woman can
     Gird more deceit within a petticoat;
Pity he loved adventurous life's variety,
He was so great a loss to good society.

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) 
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