A Sequel to Don Juan — page 101: what you’re looking at

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92 A SEQUEL TO LI. ‘< Open, I say !’”,—‘* Who are you ?”’ cried the maid.— “Your master !’’—“ But I am not drest, my lord.’’7—- ‘“‘ Then dress ! I swear J will not be delayed ; Two minutes for that purpose I accord.’’>— ‘‘ But what’s the matter ? I am so afraid, I don’t know what I do? Was that your sword With which you knocked so hard against the panel ?’’— ‘‘ This is enough to render any man ill !””— LI, ‘‘ Then pray explain yourself, my lord, and say Why it has pleased you, at the dead of night, To seek an honest girl’s room in this way, And almost kill her with the sudden fright ??’— “‘1 beg you, Miss, no longer to delay ; I will investigate th’ affair outright, As you’re no doubt accomplice in the matter !’’— ‘¢’?Tis shameful to have kicked up such a clatter !’’ LILI. The maid had parleyed thus some time to gain, So that Don Juan might deliberate, While she slipped on her clothes ;—but all was vain, And now his lordship would no longer wait. Juan had no alternative, ’twas plain, But to slip underneath the bed—a great Misfortune, for he found a sorry nose-bag, Thovgh cold and hungry too, in a foul clothes-bag. COPNICLOOKS. CON