Don Juan 02-158
Canto the Second

CLVIII

He ate, and he was well supplied: and she,
     Who watch'd him like a mother, would have fed
Him past all bounds, because she smiled to see
     Such appetite in one she had deem'd dead;
But Zoe, being older than Haidee,
     Knew (by tradition, for she ne'er had read)
That famish'd people must be slowly nurst,
And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.

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