"In her first passions woman loves her lover,

In all the others all she loves is love,

Which grows a habit she can ne'er get over,

And fits her loosely—like an easy glove," etc.

Don Juan, canto iii. st. iii.

There is no note on this passage; but on the concluding lines of the very next stanza,

"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,

But those who have ne'er end with only one,