A Sequel to Don Juan — page 68: what you’re looking at

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DON JUAN. oY CLVILI. And then adieu to husband—children—tame ! There’s naught that the high-born adulterous wife Will not resign, to gratify the flame That thus consumes the dearest ties of life. Those details which enhance the wanton’s shame, * Those incidents which aggravate the strife Of her volcanic passions—all appear, With bold and glaring hues, in fashion’s spheére./ / CLIX. And in that sphere—so narrow though it be, And formed of such a highly-polished class— There is much more of immorality Than we can find throughout the mighty mass Forming that section of society Which we mark as the middling grade.—Aias ! Those whom we’re told to imitate, are they Who seem the first to lead the rest astray ! OLX. Absurd is all the boast of pedigree !|— Of one licentious woman the disgrace May spoil a lengthened line of ancestry.— The lord, who vaunts his far descended race, And studies how his genealogy Through the long vista of past years to trace, Were he to know the truth, his sire might find In some tall footman, page, or menial hind. Comichbooks;com