LX.

With the kind view of saving an éclat,

Both to the Duchess and Diplomatist,

The Lady Adeline, as soon's she saw

That Juan was unlikely to resist—

(For foreigners don't know that a faux pas
In England ranks quite on a different list

From those of other lands unblest with juries,

Whose verdict for such sin a certain cure is;—)[MZ]

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