The word was formerly a "Cicisbeo,"[211]

But that is now grown vulgar and indecent;

The Spaniards call the person a "Cortejo,"[212]

For the same mode subsists in Spain, though recent;

In short it reaches from the Po to Teio,

And may perhaps at last be o'er the sea sent:

But Heaven preserve Old England from such courses!

Or what becomes of damage and divorces?