The effeminate garb?"—thus, after a short pause,

Sighed Juan, muttering also some slight oaths,

"What the devil shall I do with all this gauze?"

Thus he profanely termed the finest lace

Which e'er set off a marriage-morning face.

LXXVII.

And then he swore; and, sighing, on he slipped

A pair of trousers of flesh-coloured silk;[FF]

Next with a virgin zone he was equipped,

Which girt a slight chemise as white as milk;