A Sequel to Don Juan — page 185: what you’re looking at

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176 A SEQUEL TO LIX. I mean in this sketch of my relative.— I am not altogether one of those Who, spaniel-like, can forget and forgive, Or hold out t’ other cheek to have both blows. If on such terms all people were to live, The sameness would be sickening—for our foes Create excitement, whether by the war Of tongues, of fists, of battle, or of law. Ve, Hurrah ! then, for our enemies ! We may Toast them with as much reason as our friends : Cash is the line of demarcation they Both draw, where enmity or friendship ends. ‘The only difference, then, lies in the way In which each path unto that limit tends :— Our foes to rob us openly will labour, While friendship is a coin to cheat one’s neighbour. LXI. And when I think of all the cash I lost In France, may I be no, | will not swear ! "Twas quite enough in Paris to be crossed By Fortune,without getting doomed elsewhere. Of all men injured I’m perchance the most,— But still I never yielded to despair ; And having just dined off some nice roast beef, A glass of sherry is a great relief. cComilchbookssecom