XCVII.

Here I might enter on a chaste description,

Having withstood temptation in my youth,[EI]But hear that several people take exception

At the first two books having too much truth;

Therefore I'll make Don Juan leave the ship soon,

Because the publisher declares, in sooth,

Through needles' eyes it easier for the camel is

To pass, than those two cantos into families.

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