LXXVII.

Well, we won't analyse—our story must

Tell for itself: the Sovereign was smitten,

Juan much flattered by her love, or lust;—

I cannot stop to alter words once written,

And the two are so mixed with human dust,

That he who names one, both perchance may hit on:

But in such matters Russia's mighty Empress

Behaved no better than a common sempstress.

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