But 't is as well at once to understand,
You are not a moral people, and you know it,
Without the aid of too sincere a poet.
LXXXVIII.
What Juan saw and underwent shall be
My topic, with of course the due restriction
Which is required by proper courtesy;
And recollect the work is only fiction,
And that I sing of neither mine nor me,
Though every scribe, in some slight turn of diction,