A Sequel to Don Juan — page 133: what you’re looking at

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124 A SEQUEL TO CXL. T’o you, my lord, has innocence in vain Knelt supplicating, with dishevelled hair ;* The answer has been insult and disdain—_ The sequel, bliss to you—to her despair ! Each new accession to your harem-train, Kach conquest over some fresh victim fair, Has sealed a parent’s.or a husband’s doom, Or sent a lover to an early tomb. CX LI. Thou hast permitted nothing to oppose The triumph of thy passions :—all those ties Which generous natures feel, or honour knows, Hast thou made to thy lust a sacrifice. I would not be the author of the woes Which thou hast heaped upon whole families— No—not for all thy wealth and titled name :— Thou shameless man, I shudder at thy shame ! * The Morning Herald, with a fearlessness that deserves the highest commendation, published an account, a few days after the elevation of Lord Segrave tothe Earldom - of Fitzhardinge, of an adventure of this nobleman with a young lady whom he seduced under circumstances of peculiar atrocity. No name was mentioned in this journal’s account of the transaction, which was narrated in the form of a letter ;— but the indi- vidual was so well pointed out, that all the world recognised the portraiture. The cap moreover seemed to fit uncommonly well ; for his lordship wrote a Jetter about it the very next day. Of course he denied the whole statement : the value of such a denial was rightly estimated by the public, 5} COPMICLOOKSnEO)