At least for this I cannot spare its vanity.

My Muse hath bred, and still perhaps may breed

More foes by this same scroll: when I began it, I

Thought that it might turn out so—now I know it,[753]

But still I am, or was, a pretty poet.

LXI.

The conference or congress (for it ended

As Congresses of late do) of the Lady

Adeline and Don Juan rather blended

Some acids with the sweets—for she was heady;