XIX.

If fair Gulbeyaz overdid her part,

I know not—it succeeded, and success

Is much in most things, not less in the heart

Than other articles of female dress.

Self-love in Man, too, beats all female art;[GL]They lie, we lie, all lie, but love no less:

And no one virtue yet, except starvation,

Could stop that worst of vices—propagation.

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