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Oh ye! who teach the ingenuous youth of nations,

Holland, France, England, Germany, or Spain,

I pray ye flog them upon all occasions⁠—

It mends their morals, never mind the pain:

The best of mothers and of educations

In Juan’s case were but employed in vain,

Since, in a way that’s rather of the oddest, he

Became divested of his native modesty.