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Whether Don Juan and chaste Adeline

Grew friends in this or any other sense,

Will be discussed hereafter, I opine:

At present I am glad of a pretence

To leave them hovering, as the effect is fine,

And keeps the atrocious reader in suspense;

The surest way⁠—for ladies and for books⁠—

To bait their tender⁠—or their tenter⁠—hooks.