Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy, Part II., Sect. 3, (mem. 7.)
In her first passion woman loves her lover,
In all the others, all she loves is love, &c.—Byron: Don Juan.
Borrowed from La Rochefoucauld:—
Dans les premières passions les femmes aiment l’amant; dans les autres elles aiment l’amour.—Max. 494.
In the same place Byron adds:—
Although, no doubt, her first of love-affairs
Is that to which her heart is wholly granted,
Yet there are some, they say, who have had none;