That being about the number I'll allow
Each canto of the twelve, or twenty-four;
And, laying down my pen, I make my bow,
Leaving Don Juan and Haidée to plead
For them and theirs with all who deign to read.
FOOTNOTES:
[96] Begun at Venice, December 13, 1818,-finished January 20, 1819.
[AY] {81}Lost that most precious stone of stones—his modesty.—[MS.]
[97] {82}[Compare "The Girl of Cadiz," Poetical Works, 1900, iii. 1, and note 1.
[AZ] But d——n me if I ever saw the like.—[MS.]