'T is a "great moral lesson"[634] they are reading.

I thought, at setting off, about two dozen

Cantos would do; but at Apollo's pleading,

If that my Pegasus should not be foundered,

I think to canter gently through a hundred.

LVI.

Don Juan saw that Microcosm on stilts,

Yclept the Great World; for it is the least,

Although the highest: but as swords have hilts

By which their power of mischief is increased,