A Sequel to Don Juan — page 227: what you’re looking at

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218 A SEQUEL TO XXXVII. Know ye a Grecian virtue more sublime Than this alacrity to plunge in guilt ¢— Go, search amid the annals of past time— Ages when blood was in profusion spilt, And e’en when suicide was not a crime,*— Go, ransack ancient history as thou wilt,— Vain will those efforts be—thou shalt not find _A grander proof of woman’s noble mind ! XXX VIII. Zenobia, led in triumph and enchained, Although a vanquished, still a haughty prize, When wooed by Tadmor’s conqueror,+ disdained The Roman crown, with honour’s sacrifice. Lucretia, when her chastity was stained, Sought death before her outraged husband’s eyes. Thus one loved honour better than a throne— The other could not live when it was gone! * The Romans did not consider suicide to be a erime. + The Emperor Aurelian conquered Palmyra, and dragged the lovely huntress- | queen to grace his triumph to Rome. He offered her his hand; but that high-souled woman disdained the homage of the robber’s heart— she spurned the offer of her con- queror’s crown. Despoiled of her kingdom, she lived a dignified matron, unsubdued in mind, although denied all external honours, save, indeed, the homage of the gallant- hearted. 3 COPMICLOOKSn (EO)