A Sequel to Don Juan — page 200: what you’re looking at

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DON JUAN. 191 Cll. And thou, too, Genius of voluptuous dancing, _ Parent of gauzy and transparent dresses, W ho left no scope for fancy’s sweet romancing, And gave no opportunity for guesses ; But, with white thighs beneath the muslin glancing, And breasts not e’en concealed by flowing tresses. Didst rule the gilded salons of the court,— Thou too wast banished from thine old resort ! CII. And then the glorious trade of go-between* Went, like the occupation of Othello ; And many a lovely Countess of nineteen, Or stately Marchioness, grown somewhat mellow ; Or Duchess, who a beauty once had been, Deplored the loss each of her ‘* pretty fellow ;”’ And the old procuresses grew as pale As Bass’s celebrated Indian ale. + * To so shameless and disgusting a pitch had vice and dissipation arrived in the time of Louis the Sixteenth, that the trade or calling of Procureuse, or Entremetteuse, was a most lucrative one ; and even dowager ladies of title and antiquated demireps, when no longer able to sin on their own acceunt, busied themselves by acting the parts of ‘“go-between,”’ or confidant, and setting others sinning. Madame De la Motte’s dis- graceful affair of the necklace was illustrative of one of the many branches in which the business of Eniremetieuse was profitably exercised. + See the advertisements in the Newspapers respecting ‘* Bass’s celebrated India Pale Ale.” “ COnmmicloooks. conn