A Sequel to Don Juan — page 244: what you’re looking at

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DON JUAN. 235 LXXXVII. French patent-leather boots, too, John Bull loves, And waistcoats on the best Parisian rules— Not to forget eau-de-cologne and gloves, Indecent pictures, laces, silks, and jewels : But where the Englishman his weakness proves— Indeed, where all true Britons act like fools, Is in dispensing heaps of hard-earned money For such as Ellsler and as Taglioni. LXXX VIII. The Drama, termed “ Legitimate,” may go Unto the Devil for what John Bull cares, So long as from th’ Italian hirelings flow To him the unintelligible airs ; Or foreign figurantes on lightsome toe Dance lewd exciting measures :—then he spares No coin his satisfaction to’ evince— 3 But the shopkeeper* straight becomes the prince. LXX XIX. Into his cloudy island everything John Bull imports from foreign countries :—France Teaches him how to game, to dress, to sing, To dine, to drink champagne, to love, to dance; . From Germany he has his queen or king ;— But when all nations to the fight advance, Getting not wiser as his years grow riper, He constantly is doomed “ to pay the piper.” * Napoleon called the English ‘‘ a nation of shopkeepers.” COnmicloOoks. conn