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: