And deviate into matters rather dry.
I ne'er decide what I shall say, and this I call[JE]
Much too poetical: men should know why
They write, and for what end; but, note or text,
I never know the word which will come next.
XLII.
So on I ramble, now and then narrating,
Now pondering:—it is time we should narrate.
I left Don Juan with his horses baiting—
Now we'll get o'er the ground at a great rate: