All  this  must  be  reserved  for  further  song ;

Also  our  hero's  lot,  howe'er  unpleasant,
(Because  this  canto  has  become  too  long,)

Must  be  postponed  directly  for  the  present;
I'm  sensible  redundancy  is  wrong,

But  could  not  for  the  muse  of  me  put  less  in't :
And  now  delay  the  progress  of  Don  Juan,
To  what  is  called  in  Ossian,  the  fifth  Duan.
CANTO  V.
I.
Whex  amatory  poets  sing  their  loves

In  liquid  lines  melUfluously  bland,
And  pair  their  rhymes  as  Venus  yokes  her  doves.
They  little  think  what  mischief  is  in  hand  j
The  greater  their  success  the  worse  it  proves,

As  Ovid's  verse  may  make  you  understand :
Even  Petrarch's  self,  if  judged  with  due  severity,
Is  the  Platonic  pimp  of  all  posterity.
n.
f  therefore  do  denounce  all  amorous  writing,
Bxcept  in  such  a  way  as  not  to  attract ;

Plain— simple^short,  and  by  no  means  inviting,
But  with  a  moral  to  each  error  tack'd,

Form'd  rather  for  instructing  than  delighting,
And  with  all  passions  in  their  turn  attack'd ;


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BYR0N*8  WOEKS.
III.
The  Enropean  with  the  Asian  shore
Sprinkled  with  palaces ;  the  ocean  stream, ^

Here  and  there  studded  with  a  seventy-four
Sophia's  cupola  with  golden  gleam ;

The  cypress  groves ;  Olympus  high  and  hoar;
The  twelve  isles,  und  the  more  than  I  could  dream,

Far  less  describe,  present  tjie  very  view

Which  charm'd  the  charming  Mary  Montagu.
IV.
