For rich men and their brides to lay their heads
Upon, in sheets white as what bards call "driven
Snow,"[339] Well! 't is all hap-hazard when one weds.
Gulbeyaz was an empress, but had been
Perhaps as wretched if a peasants quean.
XXVI.
Don Juan in his feminine disguise,[340]
With all the damsels in their long array,
Had bowed themselves before th' imperial eyes,
And at the usual signal ta'en their way