Don Juan 02-159
Canto the Second

CLIX

And so she took the liberty to state,
     Rather by deeds than words, because the case
Was urgent, that the gentleman, whose fate
     Had made her mistress quit her bed to trace
The sea-shore at this hour, must leave his plate,
     Unless he wish'd to die upon the place-
She snatch'd it, and refused another morsel,
Saying, he had gorged enough to make a horse ill.

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