LI.

The Lady Adeline's serene severity

Was not confined to feeling for her friend,

Whose fame she rather doubted with posterity,

Unless her habits should begin to mend:

But Juan also shared in her austerity,

But mixed with pity, pure as e'er was penned

His Inexperience moved her gentle ruth,

And (as her junior by six weeks) his Youth.

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