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   "ordinal": "CLIV",
   "title": null,
   "stanza_range": [
    153,
    154
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  },
  {
   "ordinal": "CLV",
   "title": null,
   "stanza_range": [
    154,
    155
   ]
  },
  {
   "ordinal": "CLVI",
   "title": null,
   "stanza_range": [
    155,
    156
   ]
  },
  {
   "ordinal": "CLVII",
   "title": null,
   "stanza_range": [
    156,
    157
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  },
  {
   "ordinal": "CLVIII",
   "title": null,
   "stanza_range": [
    157,
    158
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  },
  {
   "ordinal": "CLIX",
   "title": null,
   "stanza_range": [
    158,
    159
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   {
    "text": "When amatory poets sing their loves",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In liquid lines mellifluously bland,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And pair their rhymes as Venus yokes her doves,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "They little think what mischief is in hand;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The greater their success the worse it proves,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As Ovid’s verse may give to understand;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Even Petrarch’s self, if judged with due severity,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Is the Platonic pimp of all posterity.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "I therefore do denounce all amorous writing,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Except in such a way as not to attract;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Plain⁠—simple⁠—short, and by no means inviting,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But with a moral to each error tacked,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Formed rather for instructing than delighting,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And with all passions in their turn attacked;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Now, if my Pegasus should not be shod ill,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "This poem will become a moral model.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "The European with the Asian shore",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sprinkled with palaces⁠—the Ocean stream",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Here and there studded with a seventy-four,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sophia’s Cupola with golden gleam,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The cypress groves, Olympus high and hoar,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The twelve isles, and the more than I could dream,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Far less describe, present the very view",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Which charmed the charming Mary Montagu.",
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   }
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  [
   {
    "text": "I have a passion for the name of “Mary,”",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "For once it was a magic sound to me;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And still it half calls up the realms of Fairy,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where I beheld what never was to be;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All feelings changed, but this was last to vary,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A spell from which even yet I am not quite free:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But I grow sad⁠—and let a tale grow cold,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Which must not be pathetically told.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "The wind swept down the Euxine, and the wave",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Broke foaming o’er the blue Symplegades;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "’Tis a grand sight from off “the Giant’s Grave”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To watch the progress of those rolling seas",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Between the Bosphorus, as they lash and lave",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Europe and Asia, you being quite at ease:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "There’s not a sea the passenger e’er pukes in,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "’Twas a raw day of Autumn’s bleak beginning,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "When nights are equal, but not so the days;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The Parcae then cut short the further spinning",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of seamen’s fates, and the loud tempests raise",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The waters, and repentance for past sinning",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "In all, who o’er the great deep take their ways:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "They vow to amend their lives, and yet they don’t;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Because if drowned, they can’t⁠—if spared, they won’t.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "A crowd of shivering slaves of every nation,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And age, and sex, were in the market ranged;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Each bevy with the merchant in his station:",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Poor creatures! their good looks were sadly changed.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "All save the blacks seemed jaded with vexation,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From friends, and home, and freedom far estranged;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The negroes more philosophy displayed⁠—",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Used to it, no doubt, as eels are to be flayed.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Juan was juvenile, and thus was full,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "As most at his age are, of hope, and health;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Yet I must own, he looked a little dull,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And now and then a tear stole down by stealth;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Perhaps his recent loss of blood might pull",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "His spirit down; and then the loss of wealth,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A mistress, and such comfortable quarters,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To be put up for auction amongst Tartars,",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Were things to shake a Stoic; ne’ertheless,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Upon the whole his carriage was serene:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "His figure, and the splendour of his dress,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of which some gilded remnants still were seen,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Drew all eyes on him, giving them to guess",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "He was above the vulgar by his mien;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And then, though pale, he was so very handsome;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And then⁠—they calculated on his ransom.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Like a backgammon board the place was dotted",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With whites and blacks, in groups on show for sale,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Though rather more irregularly spotted:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Some bought the jet, while others chose the pale.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "It chanced amongst the other people lotted,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A man of thirty, rather stout and hale,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With resolution in his dark grey eye,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Next Juan stood, till some might choose to buy.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "He had an English look; that is, was square",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In make, of a complexion white and ruddy,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Good teeth, with curling rather dark brown hair,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And, it might be from thought, or toil, or study,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "An open brow a little marked with care:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "One arm had on a bandage rather bloody;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And there he stood with such sang froid, that greater",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Could scarce be shown even by a mere spectator.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "But seeing at his elbow a mere lad,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of a high spirit evidently, though",
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   },
   {
    "text": "At present weighed down by a doom which had",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "O’erthrown even men, he soon began to show",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A kind of blunt compassion for the sad",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Lot of so young a partner in the woe,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Which for himself he seemed to deem no worse",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Than any other scrape, a thing of course.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“My boy!”⁠—said he, “amidst this motley crew",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of Georgians, Russians, Nubians, and what not,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All ragamuffins differing but in hue,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With whom it is our luck to cast our lot,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The only gentlemen seem I and you;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "So let us be acquainted, as we ought:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "If I could yield you any consolation,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "’T would give me pleasure.⁠—Pray, what is your nation?”",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "When Juan answered⁠—“Spanish!” he replied,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "“I thought, in fact, you could not be a Greek;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Those servile dogs are not so proudly eyed:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Fortune has played you here a pretty freak,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "But that’s her way with all men, till they’re tried;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "But never mind⁠—she’ll turn, perhaps, next week;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "She has served me also much the same as you,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Except that I have found it nothing new.”",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "“Pray, sir,” said Juan, “if I may presume,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "What brought you here?”⁠—“Oh! nothing very rare⁠—",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Six Tartars and a drag-chain⁠—”⁠—“To this doom",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "But what conducted, if the question ’s fair,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Is that which I would learn.”⁠—“I served for some",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Months with the Russian army here and there;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And taking lately, by Suwarrow’s bidding,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "A town, was ta’en myself instead of Widdin.”",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“Have you no friends?”⁠—“I had⁠—but, by God’s blessing,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Have not been troubled with them lately. Now",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "I have answered all your questions without pressing,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And you an equal courtesy should show.”",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "“Alas!” said Juan, “ ’twere a tale distressing,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And long besides.”⁠—“Oh! if ’tis really so,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "You’re right on both accounts to hold your tongue;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "A sad tale saddens doubly when ’tis long.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“But droop not: Fortune at your time of life,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Although a female moderately fickle,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Will hardly leave you (as she’s not your wife)",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "For any length of days in such a pickle.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "To strive, too, with our fate were such a strife",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "As if the corn-sheaf should oppose the sickle:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Men are the sport of circumstances, when",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The circumstances seem the sport of men.”",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“ ’Tis not,” said Juan, “for my present doom",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "I mourn, but for the past;⁠—I loved a maid:”⁠—",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "He paused, and his dark eye grew full of gloom;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "A single tear upon his eyelash staid",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "A moment, and then dropped; “but to resume,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "’Tis not my present lot, as I have said,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Which I deplore so much; for I have borne",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Hardships which have the hardiest overworn,",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“On the rough deep. But this last blow⁠—” and here",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "He stopped again, and turned away his face.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "“Aye,” quoth his friend, “I thought it would appear",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "That there had been a lady in the case;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And these are things which ask a tender tear,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Such as I, too, would shed if in your place:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "I cried upon my first wife’s dying day,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And also when my second ran away:",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“My third⁠—”⁠—“Your third!” quoth Juan, turning round;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "“You scarcely can be thirty: have you three?”",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "“No⁠—only two at present above ground:",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Surely ’tis nothing wonderful to see",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "One person thrice in holy wedlock bound!”",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "“Well, then, your third,” said Juan; “what did she?",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "She did not run away, too⁠—did she, sir?”",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "“No, faith.”⁠—“What then?”⁠—“I ran away from her.”",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“You take things coolly, sir,” said Juan. “Why,”",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Replied the other, “what can a man do?",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "There still are many rainbows in your sky,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "But mine have vanished. All, when Life is new,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Commence with feelings warm, and prospects high;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "But Time strips our illusions of their hue,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And one by one in turn, some grand mistake",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“ ’Tis true, it gets another bright and fresh,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Or fresher, brighter; but the year gone through,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "This skin must go the way, too, of all flesh,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Or sometimes only wear a week or two;⁠—",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Love’s the first net which spreads its deadly mesh;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Ambition, Avarice, Vengeance, Glory, glue",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The glittering lime-twigs of our latter days,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Where still we flutter on for pence or praise.”",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“All this is very fine, and may be true,”",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Said Juan; “but I really don’t see how",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "It betters present times with me or you.”",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "“No?” quoth the other; “yet you will allow",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "By setting things in their right point of view,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Knowledge, at least, is gained; for instance, now,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "We know what slavery is, and our disasters",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "May teach us better to behave when masters.”",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“Would we were masters now, if but to try",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Their present lessons on our Pagan friends here,”",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Said Juan⁠—swallowing a heart-burning sigh:",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "“Heaven help the scholar, whom his fortune sends here!”",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "“Perhaps we shall be one day, by and by,”",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Rejoined the other, “when our bad luck mends here;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Meantime (yon old black eunuch seems to eye us)",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "I wish to G‑d that somebody would buy us.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“But after all, what is our present state?",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "’Tis bad, and may be better⁠—all men’s lot:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Most men are slaves, none more so than the great,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "To their own whims and passions, and what not;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Society itself, which should create",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Kindness, destroys what little we had got:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "To feel for none is the true social art",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Of the world’s Stoics⁠—men without a heart.”",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Just now a black old neutral personage",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Of the third sex stepped up, and peering over",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The captives seemed to mark their looks and age,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And capabilities, as to discover",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "If they were fitted for the purposed cage:",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "No lady e’er is ogled by a lover,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Horse by a blackleg, broadcloth by a tailor,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Fee by a counsel, felon by a jailor,",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "As is a slave by his intended bidder.",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "’Tis pleasant purchasing our fellow-creatures;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And all are to be sold, if you consider",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Their passions, and are dext’rous; some by features",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Are bought up, others by a warlike leader,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Some by a place⁠—as tend their years or natures:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The most by ready cash⁠—but all have prices,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "From crowns to kicks, according to their vices.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "The eunuch, having eyed them o’er with care,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Turned to the merchant, and began to bid",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "First but for one, and after for the pair;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "They haggled, wrangled, swore, too⁠—so they did!",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "As though they were in a mere Christian fair,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Cheapening an ox, an ass, a lamb, or kid;",
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   {
    "text": "So that their bargain sounded like a battle",
    "indent": 0
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   {
    "text": "For this superior yoke of human cattle.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "At last they settled into simple grumbling,",
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   {
    "text": "And pulling out reluctant purses, and",
    "indent": 1
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   {
    "text": "Turning each piece of silver o’er, and tumbling",
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   {
    "text": "Some down, and weighing others in their hand,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And by mistake sequins with paras jumbling,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Until the sum was accurately scanned,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And then the merchant giving change, and signing",
    "indent": 0
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   {
    "text": "Receipts in full, began to think of dining.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "I wonder if his appetite was good?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or, if it were, if also his digestion?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Methinks at meals some odd thoughts might intrude,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And Conscience ask a curious sort of question,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "About the right divine how far we should",
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   {
    "text": "Sell flesh and blood. When dinner has oppressed one,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I think it is perhaps the gloomiest hour",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Which turns up out of the sad twenty-four.",
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   {
    "text": "Voltaire says “No:” he tells you that Candide",
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   {
    "text": "Found life most tolerable after meals;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "He’s wrong⁠—unless man were a pig, indeed,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Repletion rather adds to what he feels,",
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   {
    "text": "Unless he’s drunk, and then no doubt he’s freed",
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   {
    "text": "From his own brain’s oppression while it reels.",
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   {
    "text": "Of food I think with Philip’s son or rather",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ammon’s (ill pleased with one world and one father);",
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    "text": "I think with Alexander, that the act",
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   {
    "text": "Of eating, with another act or two,",
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   {
    "text": "Makes us feel our mortality in fact",
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   {
    "text": "Redoubled; when a roast and a ragout,",
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   {
    "text": "And fish, and soup, by some side dishes backed,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Can give us either pain or pleasure, who",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Would pique himself on intellects, whose use",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Depends so much upon the gastric juice?",
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   {
    "text": "The other evening (’twas on Friday last)⁠—",
    "indent": 0
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   {
    "text": "This is a fact, and no poetic fable⁠—",
    "indent": 1
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   {
    "text": "Just as my great coat was about me cast,",
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   {
    "text": "My hat and gloves still lying on the table,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I heard a shot⁠—’twas eight o’clock scarce past⁠—",
    "indent": 0
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   {
    "text": "And, running out as fast as I was able,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I found the military commandant",
    "indent": 0
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   {
    "text": "Stretched in the street, and able scarce to pant.",
    "indent": 0
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   {
    "text": "Poor fellow! for some reason, surely bad,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "They had slain him with five slugs; and left him there",
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   {
    "text": "To perish on the pavement: so I had",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Him borne into the house and up the stair,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And stripped, and looked to⁠—But why should I add",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "More circumstances? vain was every care;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The man was gone⁠—in some Italian quarrel",
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   {
    "text": "Killed by five bullets from an old gun-barrel.",
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   {
    "text": "I gazed upon him, for I knew him well;",
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   {
    "text": "And though I have seen many corpses, never",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Saw one, whom such an accident befell,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So calm; though pierced through stomach, heart, and liver,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He seemed to sleep⁠—for you could scarcely tell",
    "indent": 0
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   {
    "text": "(As he bled inwardly, no hideous river",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Of gore divulged the cause) that he was dead:",
    "indent": 0
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   {
    "text": "So as I gazed on him, I thought or said⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "“Can this be Death? then what is Life or Death?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Speak!” but he spoke not: “wake!” but still he slept:⁠—",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "“But yesterday and who had mightier breath?",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "A thousand warriors by his word were kept",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "In awe: he said, as the Centurion saith,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "‘Go,’ and he goeth; ‘come,’ and forth he stepped.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The trump and bugle till he spake were dumb⁠—",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And now nought left him but the muffled drum.”",
    "indent": 0
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "And they who waited once and worshipped⁠—they",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "With their rough faces thronged about the bed",
    "indent": 1
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   {
    "text": "To gaze once more on the commanding clay",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Which for the last, though not the first, time bled;",
    "indent": 1
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   {
    "text": "And such an end! that he who many a day",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Had faced Napoleon’s foes until they fled⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The foremost in the charge or in the sally,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Should now be butchered in a civic alley.",
    "indent": 0
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "The scars of his old wounds were near his new,",
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   {
    "text": "Those honourable scars which brought him fame;",
    "indent": 1
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   {
    "text": "And horrid was the contrast to the view⁠—",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "But let me quit the theme; as such things claim",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Perhaps even more attention than is due",
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   {
    "text": "From me: I gazed (as oft I have gazed the same)",
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   {
    "text": "To try if I could wrench aught out of Death",
    "indent": 0
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   {
    "text": "Which should confirm, or shake, or make a faith;",
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   {
    "text": "But it was all a mystery. Here we are,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And there we go:⁠—but where? five bits of lead,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or three, or two, or one, send very far!",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And is this blood, then, formed but to be shed?",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Can every element our elements mar?",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And Air⁠—Earth⁠—Water⁠—Fire live⁠—and we dead?",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "We, whose minds comprehend all things? No more;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "But let us to the story as before.",
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    "text": "The purchaser of Juan and acquaintance",
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   {
    "text": "Bore off his bargains to a gilded boat,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Embarked himself and them, and off they went thence",
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   {
    "text": "As fast as oars could pull and water float;",
    "indent": 1
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   {
    "text": "They looked like persons being led to sentence,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Wondering what next, till the caïque was brought",
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   {
    "text": "Up in a little creek below a wall",
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   {
    "text": "O’ertopped with cypresses, dark-green and tall.",
    "indent": 0
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Here their conductor tapping at the wicket",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Of a small iron door, ’twas opened, and",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "He led them onward, first through a low thicket",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Flanked by large groves, which towered on either hand:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "They almost lost their way, and had to pick it⁠—",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "For night was closing ere they came to land.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The eunuch made a sign to those on board,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Who rowed off, leaving them without a word.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "As they were plodding on their winding way",
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   {
    "text": "Through orange bowers, and jasmine, and so forth:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "(Of which I might have a good deal to say,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "There being no such profusion in the North",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of oriental plants, et cetera,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "But that of late your scribblers think it worth",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Their while to rear whole hotbeds in their works,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Because one poet travelled ’mongst the Turks:)",
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  ],
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    "text": "As they were threading on their way, there came",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Into Don Juan’s head a thought, which he",
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   {
    "text": "Whispered to his companion:⁠—’twas the same",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Which might have then occurred to you or me.",
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   {
    "text": "“Methinks,”⁠—said he⁠—“it would be no great shame",
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   {
    "text": "If we should strike a stroke to set us free;",
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   {
    "text": "Let’s knock that old black fellow on the head,",
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   {
    "text": "And march away⁠—’twere easier done than said.”",
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   {
    "text": "“Yes,” said the other, “and when done, what then?",
    "indent": 0
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   {
    "text": "How get out? how the devil got we in?",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And when we once were fairly out, and when",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "From Saint Bartholomew we have saved our skin,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "To-morrow’d see us in some other den,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And worse off than we hitherto have been;",
    "indent": 1
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   {
    "text": "Besides, I’m hungry, and just now would take,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Like Esau, for my birthright a beef-steak.",
    "indent": 0
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  [
   {
    "text": "“We must be near some place of man’s abode;⁠—",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "For the old negro’s confidence in creeping,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With his two captives, by so queer a road,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Shows that he thinks his friends have not been sleeping;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "A single cry would bring them all abroad:",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "’Tis better therefore looking before leaping⁠—",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And there, you see, this turn has brought us through,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "By Jove, a noble palace!⁠—lighted too.”",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "It was indeed a wide extensive building",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Which opened on their view, and o’er the front",
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   },
   {
    "text": "There seemed to be besprent a deal of gilding",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And various hues, as is the Turkish wont⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "A gaudy taste; for they are little skilled in",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The arts of which these lands were once the font:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Each villa on the Bosphorus looks a screen",
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   {
    "text": "New painted, or a pretty opera-scene.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "And nearer as they came, a genial savour",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Of certain stews, and roast-meats, and pilaus,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Things which in hungry mortals’ eyes find favour,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Made Juan in his harsh intentions pause,",
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   {
    "text": "And put himself upon his good behaviour:",
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   {
    "text": "His friend, too, adding a new saving clause,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Said, “In Heaven’s name let’s get some supper now,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And then I’m with you, if you’re for a row.”",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Some talk of an appeal unto some passion,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Some to men’s feelings, others to their reason;",
    "indent": 1
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   {
    "text": "The last of these was never much the fashion,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For Reason thinks all reasoning out of season:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Some speakers whine, and others lay the lash on,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "But more or less continue still to tease on,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With arguments according to their “forte:”",
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   {
    "text": "But no one ever dreams of being short.⁠—",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "But I digress: of all appeals⁠—although",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "I grant the power of pathos, and of gold,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of beauty, flattery, threats, a shilling⁠—no",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Method’s more sure at moments to take hold",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of the best feelings of mankind, which grow",
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   },
   {
    "text": "More tender, as we every day behold,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Than that all-softening, overpowering knell,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The Tocsin of the Soul⁠—the dinner-bell.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Turkey contains no bells, and yet men dine;",
    "indent": 0
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   {
    "text": "And Juan and his friend, albeit they heard",
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   },
   {
    "text": "No Christian knoll to table, saw no line",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Of lackeys usher to the feast prepared,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yet smelt roast-meat, beheld a huge fire shine,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And gazed around them to the left and right,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With the prophetic eye of appetite.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "And giving up all notions of resistance,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "They followed close behind their sable guide,",
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   {
    "text": "Who little thought that his own cracked existence",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Was on the point of being set aside:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He motioned them to stop at some small distance,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And knocking at the gate, ’twas opened wide,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And a magnificent large hall displayed",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The Asian pomp of Ottoman parade.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "I won’t describe; description is my “forte,”",
    "indent": 0
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   {
    "text": "But every fool describes in these bright days",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "His wondrous journey to some foreign court,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise⁠—",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Death to his publisher, to him ’tis sport;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "While Nature, tortured twenty thousand ways,",
    "indent": 1
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   {
    "text": "Resigns herself with exemplary patience",
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   {
    "text": "To guide-books, rhymes, tours, sketches, illustrations.",
    "indent": 0
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Along this hall, and up and down, some, squatted",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Upon their hams, were occupied at chess;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Others in monosyllable talk chatted,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And some seemed much in love with their own dress;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And divers smoked superb pipes decorated",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "With amber mouths of greater price or less;",
    "indent": 1
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   {
    "text": "And several strutted, others slept, and some",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Prepared for supper with a glass of rum.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "As the black eunuch entered with his brace",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Of purchased Infidels, some raised their eyes",
    "indent": 1
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   {
    "text": "A moment, without slackening from their pace;",
    "indent": 0
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   {
    "text": "But those who sate ne’er stirred in any wise:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "One or two stared the captives in the face,",
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   {
    "text": "Just as one views a horse to guess his price;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Some nodded to the negro from their station,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But no one troubled him with conversation.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "He leads them through the hall, and, without stopping,",
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   {
    "text": "On through a farther range of goodly rooms,",
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   {
    "text": "Splendid, but silent, save in one, where dropping",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A marble fountain echoes through the glooms",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of night which robe the chamber, or where popping",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Some female head most curiously presumes",
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   {
    "text": "To thrust its black eyes through the door or lattice,",
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   {
    "text": "As wondering what the devil noise that is!",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Some faint lamps gleaming from the lofty walls",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Gave light enough to hint their farther way,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But not enough to show the imperial halls",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In all the flashing of their full array;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Perhaps there’s nothing⁠—I’ll not say appals,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "But saddens more by night as well as day,",
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   {
    "text": "Than an enormous room without a soul",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To break the lifeless splendour of the whole.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Two or three seem so little, one seems nothing:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In deserts, forests, crowds, or by the shore,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "There Solitude, we know, has her full growth in",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The spots which were her realms for evermore;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But in a mighty hall or gallery, both in",
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   },
   {
    "text": "More modern buildings and those built of yore,",
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   {
    "text": "A kind of Death comes o’er us all alone,",
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   {
    "text": "Seeing what’s meant for many with but one.",
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   }
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   {
    "text": "A neat, snug study on a winter’s night,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "A book, friend, single lady, or a glass",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Of claret, sandwich, and an appetite,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Are things which make an English evening pass⁠—",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Though certes by no means so grand a sight",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As is a theatre lit up by gas⁠—",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "I pass my evenings in long galleries solely,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And that’s the reason I’m so melancholy.",
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   {
    "text": "Alas! Man makes that great which makes him little⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "I grant you in a church ’tis very well:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "What speaks of Heaven should by no means be brittle,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But strong and lasting, till no tongue can tell",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Their names who reared it; but huge houses fit ill,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And huge tombs, worse, Mankind⁠—since Adam fell:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Methinks the story of the tower of Babel",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Might teach them this much better than I’m able.",
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   {
    "text": "Babel was Nimrod’s hunting-box, and then",
    "indent": 0
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   {
    "text": "A town of gardens, walls, and wealth amazing,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where Nabuchadonosor, King of men,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Reigned, till one summer’s day he took to grazing,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And Daniel tamed the lions in their den,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The people’s awe and admiration raising;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "’Twas famous, too, for Thisbe and for Pyramus,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And the calumniated queen Semiramis⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "That injured Queen, by chroniclers so coarse,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Has been accused (I doubt not by conspiracy)",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of an improper friendship for her horse",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "(Love, like Religion, sometimes runs to heresy):",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "This monstrous tale had probably its source",
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   },
   {
    "text": "(For such exaggerations here and there I see)",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In writing “Courser” by mistake for “Courier:”",
    "indent": 0
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   {
    "text": "I wish the case could come before a jury here.",
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   {
    "text": "But to resume⁠—should there be (what may not",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Be in these days?) some infidels, who don’t,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Because they can’t find out the very spot",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Of that same Babel, or because they won’t",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "(Though Claudius Rich, Esquire, some bricks has got,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And written lately two memoirs upon ’t),",
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   {
    "text": "Believe the Jews, those unbelievers, who",
    "indent": 0
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   {
    "text": "Must be believed, though they believe not you:",
    "indent": 0
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Yet let them think that Horace has expressed",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Shortly and sweetly the masonic folly",
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   {
    "text": "Of those, forgetting the great place of rest,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Who give themselves to Architecture wholly;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "We know where things and men must end at best:",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "A moral (like all morals) melancholy,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And “Et sepulchri immemor struis domos”",
    "indent": 0
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   {
    "text": "Shows that we build when we should but entomb us.",
    "indent": 0
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "At last they reached a quarter most retired,",
    "indent": 0
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   {
    "text": "Where Echo woke as if from a long slumber;",
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   {
    "text": "Though full of all things which could be desired,",
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   {
    "text": "One wondered what to do with such a number",
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   {
    "text": "Of articles which nobody required;",
    "indent": 0
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   {
    "text": "Here Wealth had done its utmost to encumber",
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   {
    "text": "With furniture an exquisite apartment,",
    "indent": 0
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   {
    "text": "Which puzzled Nature much to know what Art meant.",
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    "text": "It seemed, however, but to open on",
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   {
    "text": "A range or suite of further chambers, which",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Might lead to Heaven knows where; but in this one",
    "indent": 0
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   {
    "text": "The moveables were prodigally rich:",
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   {
    "text": "Sofas ’twas half a sin to sit upon,",
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    "text": "So costly were they; carpets every stitch",
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   {
    "text": "Of workmanship so rare, they made you wish",
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    "text": "You could glide o’er them like a golden fish.",
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    "text": "The black, however, without hardly deigning",
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   {
    "text": "A glance at that which wrapped the slaves in wonder,",
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   {
    "text": "Trampled what they scarce trod for fear of staining,",
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    "text": "As if the milky way their feet was under",
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    "text": "With all its stars; and with a stretch attaining",
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   {
    "text": "A certain press or cupboard niched in yonder,",
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   {
    "text": "In that remote recess which you may see⁠—",
    "indent": 0
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   {
    "text": "Or if you don’t the fault is not in me⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "I wish to be perspicuous⁠—and the black,",
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    "text": "I say, unlocking the recess, pulled forth",
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    "text": "A quantity of clothes fit for the back",
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    "text": "Of any Mussulman, whate’er his worth;",
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    "text": "And of variety there was no lack⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "And yet, though I have said there was no dearth⁠—",
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    "text": "He chose himself to point out what he thought",
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    "text": "Most proper for the Christians he had bought.",
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    "text": "The suit he thought most suitable to each",
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    "text": "Was, for the elder and the stouter, first",
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   {
    "text": "A Candiote cloak, which to the knee might reach,",
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    "text": "And trousers not so tight that they would burst,",
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    "text": "But such as fit an Asiatic breech;",
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    "text": "A shawl, whose folds in Cashmire had been nursed,",
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   {
    "text": "Slippers of saffron, dagger rich and handy;",
    "indent": 0
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    "text": "In short, all things which form a Turkish Dandy.",
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    "text": "While he was dressing, Baba, their black friend,",
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    "text": "Hinted the vast advantages which they",
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    "text": "Might probably attain both in the end,",
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   {
    "text": "If they would but pursue the proper way",
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    "text": "Which Fortune plainly seemed to recommend;",
    "indent": 0
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   {
    "text": "And then he added, that he needs must say,",
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   {
    "text": "“ ’T would greatly tend to better their condition,",
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    "text": "If they would condescend to circumcision.",
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    "text": "“For his own part, he really should rejoice",
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   {
    "text": "To see them true believers, but no less",
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   {
    "text": "Would leave his proposition to their choice.”",
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   {
    "text": "The other, thanking him for this excess",
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   {
    "text": "Of goodness, in thus leaving them a voice",
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   {
    "text": "In such a trifle, scarcely could express",
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   {
    "text": "“Sufficiently” (he said) “his approbation",
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    "text": "Of all the customs of this polished nation.",
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   {
    "text": "“For his own share⁠—he saw but small objection",
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    "text": "To so respectable an ancient rite;",
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   {
    "text": "And, after swallowing down a slight refection,",
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   {
    "text": "For which he owned a present appetite,",
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   {
    "text": "He doubted not a few hours of reflection",
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   {
    "text": "Would reconcile him to the business quite.”",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "“Will it?” said Juan, sharply: “Strike me dead,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "But they as soon shall circumcise my head!",
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    "text": "“Cut off a thousand heads, before⁠—”⁠—“Now, pray,”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Replied the other, “do not interrupt:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "You put me out in what I had to say.",
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   {
    "text": "Sir!⁠—as I said, as soon as I have supped,",
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   {
    "text": "I shall perpend if your proposal may",
    "indent": 0
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   {
    "text": "Be such as I can properly accept;",
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   {
    "text": "Provided always your great goodness still",
    "indent": 0
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   {
    "text": "Remits the matter to our own free-will.”",
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    "text": "Baba eyed Juan, and said, “Be so good",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As dress yourself⁠—” and pointed out a suit",
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   {
    "text": "In which a Princess with great pleasure would",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Array her limbs; but Juan standing mute,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As not being in a masquerading mood,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Gave it a slight kick with his Christian foot;",
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   {
    "text": "And when the old negro told him to “Get ready,”",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Replied, “Old gentleman, I’m not a lady.”",
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    "text": "“What you may be, I neither know nor care,”",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Said Baba; “but pray do as I desire:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I have no more time nor many words to spare.”",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "“At least,” said Juan, “sure I may inquire",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The cause of this odd travesty?”⁠—“Forbear,”",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Said Baba, “to be curious; ’twill transpire,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "No doubt, in proper place, and time, and season:",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "I have no authority to tell the reason.”",
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    "text": "“Then if I do,” said Juan, “I’ll be⁠—”⁠—“Hold!”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Rejoined the negro, “pray be not provoking;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "This spirit’s well, but it may wax too bold,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And you will find us not too fond of joking.”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“What, sir!” said Juan, “shall it e’er be told",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That I unsexed my dress?” But Baba, stroking",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The things down, said, “Incense me, and I call",
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    "text": "Those who will leave you of no sex at all.",
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    "text": "“I offer you a handsome suit of clothes:",
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   {
    "text": "A woman’s, true; but then there is a cause",
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   {
    "text": "Why you should wear them.”⁠—“What, though my soul loathes",
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   {
    "text": "The effeminate garb?”⁠—thus, after a short pause,",
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   {
    "text": "Sighed Juan, muttering also some slight oaths,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“What the devil shall I do with all this gauze?”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thus he profanely termed the finest lace",
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   {
    "text": "Which e’er set off a marriage-morning face.",
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    "text": "And then he swore; and, sighing, on he slipped",
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   {
    "text": "A pair of trousers of flesh-coloured silk;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Next with a virgin zone he was equipped,",
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   {
    "text": "Which girt a slight chemise as white as milk;",
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   {
    "text": "But tugging on his petticoat, he tripped,",
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    "text": "Which⁠—as we say⁠—or as the Scotch say, whilk,",
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    "text": "(The rhyme obliges me to this; sometimes",
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    "text": "Monarchs are less imperative than rhymes)⁠—",
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    "text": "Whilk, which (or what you please), was owing to",
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   },
   {
    "text": "His garment’s novelty, and his being awkward:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And yet at last he managed to get through",
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   {
    "text": "His toilet, though no doubt a little backward:",
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   {
    "text": "The negro Baba helped a little too,",
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    "text": "When some untoward part of raiment stuck hard;",
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    "text": "And, wrestling both his arms into a gown,",
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    "text": "He paused, and took a survey up and down.",
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    "text": "One difficulty still remained⁠—his hair",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Was hardly long enough; but Baba found",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So many false long tresses all to spare,",
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    "text": "That soon his head was most completely crowned,",
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    "text": "After the manner then in fashion there;",
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   {
    "text": "And this addition with such gems was bound",
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   {
    "text": "As suited the ensemble of his toilet,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "While Baba made him comb his head and oil it.",
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    "text": "And now being femininely all arrayed,",
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    "text": "With some small aid from scissors, paint, and tweezers,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He looked in almost all respects a maid,",
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   {
    "text": "And Baba smilingly exclaimed, “You see, sirs,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A perfect transformation here displayed;",
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   {
    "text": "And now, then, you must come along with me, sirs,",
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   {
    "text": "That is⁠—the Lady:” clapping his hands twice,",
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   },
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    "text": "Four blacks were at his elbow in a trice.",
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    "text": "“You, sir,” said Baba, nodding to the one,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Will please to accompany those gentlemen",
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   {
    "text": "To supper; but you, worthy Christian nun,",
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   {
    "text": "Will follow me: no trifling, sir; for when",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "I say a thing, it must at once be done.",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "What fear you? think you this a lion’s den?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Why, ’tis a palace; where the truly wise",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Anticipate the Prophet’s paradise.",
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   {
    "text": "“You fool! I tell you no one means you harm.”",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "“So much the better,” Juan said, “for them;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Else they shall feel the weight of this my arm,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Which is not quite so light as you may deem.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "I yield thus far; but soon will break the charm,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "If any take me for that which I seem:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So that I trust for every body’s sake,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That this disguise may lead to no mistake.”",
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   }
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   {
    "text": "“Blockhead! come on, and see,” quoth Baba; while",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Don Juan, turning to his comrade, who",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Though somewhat grieved, could scarce forbear a smile",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Upon the metamorphosis in view⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Farewell!” they mutually exclaimed: “this soil",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Seems fertile in adventures strange and new;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "One’s turned half Mussulman, and one a maid,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "By this old black enchanter’s unsought aid.”",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "“Farewell!” said Juan: “should we meet no more,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "I wish you a good appetite.”⁠—“Farewell!”",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Replied the other; “though it grieves me sore:",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "When we next meet, we’ll have a tale to tell:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "We needs must follow when Fate puts from shore.",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Keep your good name; though Eve herself once fell.”",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "“Nay,” quoth the maid, “the Sultan’s self shan’t carry me,",
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   {
    "text": "Unless his Highness promises to marry me.”",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "And thus they parted, each by separate doors;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Baba led Juan onward, room by room,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Through glittering galleries, and o’er marble floors,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Till a gigantic portal through the gloom,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Haughty and huge, along the distance lowers;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And wafted far arose a rich perfume:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "It seemed as though they came upon a shrine,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For all was vast, still, fragrant, and divine.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "The giant door was broad, and bright, and high,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of gilded bronze, and carved in curious guise;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Warriors thereon were battling furiously;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Here stalks the victor, there the vanquished lies;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "There captives led in triumph droop the eye,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And in perspective many a squadron flies:",
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   {
    "text": "It seems the work of times before the line",
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   {
    "text": "Of Rome transplanted fell with Constantine.",
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   {
    "text": "This massy portal stood at the wide close",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of a huge hall, and on its either side",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Two little dwarfs, the least you could suppose,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Were sate, like ugly imps, as if allied",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "In mockery to the enormous gate which rose",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O’er them in almost pyramidic pride:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The gate so splendid was in all its features,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "You never thought about those little creatures,",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Until you nearly trod on them, and then",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "You started back in horror to survey",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The wondrous hideousness of those small men,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whose colour was not black, nor white, nor grey,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But an extraneous mixture, which no pen",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Can trace, although perhaps the pencil may;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "They were mis-shapen pygmies, deaf and dumb⁠—",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Monsters, who cost a no less monstrous sum.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Their duty was⁠—for they were strong, and though",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "They looked so little, did strong things at times⁠—",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "To ope this door, which they could really do,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The hinges being as smooth as Rogers’ rhymes;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And now and then, with tough strings of the bow,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "As is the custom of those Eastern climes,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "To give some rebel Pacha a cravat⁠—",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "For mutes are generally used for that.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "They spoke by signs⁠—that is, not spoke at all;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And looking like two Incubi, they glared",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "As Baba with his fingers made them fall",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "To heaving back the portal folds: it scared",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Juan a moment, as this pair so small,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "With shrinking serpent optics on him stared;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "It was as if their little looks could poison",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Or fascinate whome’er they fixed their eyes on.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Before they entered, Baba paused to hint",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "To Juan some slight lessons as his guide:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“If you could just contrive,” he said, “to stint",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "That somewhat manly majesty of stride,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "’T would be as well, and⁠—(though there’s not much in’t)",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "To swing a little less from side to side,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Which has at times an aspect of the oddest;⁠—",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And also could you look a little modest,",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“ ’T would be convenient; for these mutes have eyes",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Like needles, which may pierce those petticoats;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And if they should discover your disguise,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "You know how near us the deep Bosphorus floats;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And you and I may chance, ere morning rise,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "To find our way to Marmora without boats,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Stitched up in sacks⁠—a mode of navigation",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "A good deal practised here upon occasion.”",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "With this encouragement he led the way",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Into a room still nobler than the last;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "A rich confusion formed a disarray",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "In such sort, that the eye along it cast",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Could hardly carry anything away,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Object on object flashed so bright and fast;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "A dazzling mass of gems, and gold, and glitter,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Magnificently mingled in a litter.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Wealth had done wonders⁠—taste not much; such things",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Occur in Orient palaces, and even",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "In the more chastened domes of Western kings",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "(Of which I have also seen some six or seven),",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where I can’t say or gold or diamond flings",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Great lustre, there is much to be forgiven;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Groups of bad statues, tables, chairs, and pictures,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "On which I cannot pause to make my strictures.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "In this imperial hall, at distance lay",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Under a canopy, and there reclined",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Quite in a confidential queenly way,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A lady; Baba stopped, and kneeling signed",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "To Juan, who though not much used to pray,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Knelt down by instinct, wondering in his mind",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "What all this meant: while Baba bowed and bended",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "His head, until the ceremony ended.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "The lady rising up with such an air",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As Venus rose with from the wave, on them",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Bent like an antelope a Paphian pair",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of eyes, which put out each surrounding gem;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And raising up an arm as moonlight fair,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "She signed to Baba, who first kissed the hem",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of her deep purple robe, and, speaking low,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Pointed to Juan who remained below.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Her presence was as lofty as her state;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Her beauty of that overpowering kind,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whose force Description only would abate:",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "I’d rather leave it much to your own mind,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Than lessen it by what I could relate",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Of forms and features; it would strike you blind",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Could I do justice to the full detail;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "So, luckily for both, my phrases fail.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Thus much however I may add⁠—her years",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Were ripe, they might make six-and-twenty springs,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "But there are forms which Time to touch forbears,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And turns aside his scythe to vulgar things:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Such as was Mary’s, Queen of Scots; true⁠—tears",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And Love destroy; and sapping Sorrow wrings",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Charms from the charmer, yet some never grow",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Ugly; for instance⁠—Ninon de l’Enclos.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "She spake some words to her attendants, who",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Composed a choir of girls, ten or a dozen,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And were all clad alike; like Juan, too,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Who wore their uniform, by Baba chosen:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "They formed a very nymph-like looking crew,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Which might have called Diana’s chorus “cousin,”",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "As far as outward show may correspond⁠—",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "I won’t be bail for anything beyond.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "They bowed obeisance and withdrew, retiring,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "But not by the same door through which came in",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Baba and Juan, which last stood admiring,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "At some small distance, all he saw within",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "This strange saloon, much fitted for inspiring",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Marvel and praise; for both or none things win;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And I must say, I ne’er could see the very",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Great happiness of the “Nil admirari.”",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“Not to admire is all the art I know",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "(Plain truth, dear Murray, needs few flowers of speech)⁠—",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "To make men happy, or to keep them so”",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "(So take it in the very words of Creech)⁠—",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Thus Horace wrote we all know long ago;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And thus Pope quotes the precept to re-teach",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "From his translation; but had none admired,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Would Pope have sung, or Horace been inspired?",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Baba, when all the damsels were withdrawn,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Motioned to Juan to approach, and then",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "A second time desired him to kneel down,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And kiss the lady’s foot; which maxim when",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "He heard repeated, Juan with a frown",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Drew himself up to his full height again,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And said, “It grieved him, but he could not stoop",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "To any shoe, unless it shod the Pope.”",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Baba, indignant at this ill-timed pride,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Made fierce remonstrances, and then a threat",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "He muttered (but the last was given aside)",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "About a bow-string⁠—quite in vain; not yet",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Would Juan bend, though ’twere to Muhammad’s bride:",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "There’s nothing in the world like etiquette",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "In kingly chambers or imperial halls,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "As also at the Race and County Balls.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "He stood like Atlas, with a world of words",
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   },
   {
    "text": "About his ears, and nathless would not bend;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The blood of all his line’s Castilian lords",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Boiled in his veins, and, rather than descend",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "To stain his pedigree, a thousand swords",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "A thousand times of him had made an end;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "At length perceiving the “foot” could not stand,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Baba proposed that he should kiss the hand,",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Here was an honourable compromise,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "A half-way house of diplomatic rest,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Where they might meet in much more peaceful guise;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And Juan now his willingness expressed",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "To use all fit and proper courtesies,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Adding, that this was commonest and best,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "For through the South, the custom still commands",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The gentleman to kiss the lady’s hands.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "And he advanced, though with but a bad grace,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Though on more thorough-bred or fairer fingers",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "No lips e’er left their transitory trace:",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "On such as these the lip too fondly lingers,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And for one kiss would fain imprint a brace,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "As you will see, if she you love shall bring hers",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "In contact; and sometimes even a fair stranger’s",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "An almost twelvemonth’s constancy endangers.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "The lady eyed him o’er and o’er, and bade",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Baba retire, which he obeyed in style,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "As if well used to the retreating trade;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And taking hints in good part all the while,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He whispered Juan not to be afraid,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And looking on him with a sort of smile,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Took leave, with such a face of satisfaction,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "As good men wear who have done a virtuous action.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "When he was gone, there was a sudden change:",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "I know not what might be the lady’s thought,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "But o’er her bright brow flashed a tumult strange,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And into her clear cheek the blood was brought,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Blood-red as sunset summer clouds which range",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The verge of Heaven; and in her large eyes wrought,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "A mixture of sensations might be scanned,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Of half voluptuousness and half command.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Her form had all the softness of her sex,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Her features all the sweetness of the Devil,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "When he put on the Cherub to perplex",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Eve, and paved (God knows how) the road to evil;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The Sun himself was scarce more free from specks",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Than she from aught at which the eye could cavil;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Yet, somehow, there was something somewhere wanting,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "As if she rather ordered than was granting.⁠—",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Something imperial, or imperious, threw",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "A chain o’er all she did; that is, a chain",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Was thrown as ’twere about the neck of you⁠—",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And Rapture’s self will seem almost a pain",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "With aught which looks like despotism in view;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Our souls at least are free, and ’tis in vain",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "We would against them make the flesh obey⁠—",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The spirit in the end will have its way.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Her very smile was haughty, though so sweet;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Her very nod was not an inclination;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "There was a self-will even in her small feet,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As though they were quite conscious of her station⁠—",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "They trod as upon necks; and to complete",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Her state (it is the custom of her nation),",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "A poniard decked her girdle, as the sign",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "She was a Sultan’s bride (thank Heaven, not mine!).",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“To hear and to obey” had been from birth",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The law of all around her; to fulfil",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All fantasies which yielded joy or mirth,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Had been her slaves’ chief pleasure, as her will;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Her blood was high, her beauty scarce of earth:",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Judge, then, if her caprices e’er stood still;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Had she but been a Christian, I’ve a notion",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "We should have found out the “perpetual motion.”",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Whate’er she saw and coveted was brought;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Whate’er she did not see, if she supposed",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "It might be seen, with diligence was sought,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And when ’twas found straightway the bargain closed:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "There was no end unto the things she bought,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Nor to the trouble which her fancies caused;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Yet even her tyranny had such a grace,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The women pardoned all except her face.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Juan, the latest of her whims, had caught",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Her eye in passing on his way to sale;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "She ordered him directly to be bought,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And Baba, who had ne’er been known to fail",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In any kind of mischief to be wrought,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "At all such auctions knew how to prevail:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "She had no prudence, but he had⁠—and this",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Explains the garb which Juan took amiss.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "His youth and features favoured the disguise,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And should you ask how she, a Sultan’s bride,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Could risk or compass such strange fantasies,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "This I must leave sultanas to decide:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Emperors are only husbands in wives’ eyes,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And kings and consorts oft are mystified,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As we may ascertain with due precision,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Some by experience, others by tradition.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "But to the main point, where we have been tending:⁠—",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "She now conceived all difficulties past,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And deemed herself extremely condescending",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When, being made her property at last,",
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   {
    "text": "Without more preface, in her blue eyes blending",
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   {
    "text": "Passion and power, a glance on him she cast,",
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   {
    "text": "And merely saying, “Christian, canst thou love?”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Conceived that phrase was quite enough to move.",
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    "text": "And so it was, in proper time and place;",
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   {
    "text": "But Juan, who had still his mind o’erflowing",
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   {
    "text": "With Haidée’s isle and soft Ionian face,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Felt the warm blood, which in his face was glowing",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Rush back upon his heart, which filled apace,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And left his cheeks as pale as snowdrops blowing:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "These words went through his soul like Arab spears,",
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   {
    "text": "So that he spoke not, but burst into tears.",
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    "text": "She was a good deal shocked; not shocked at tears,",
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   {
    "text": "For women shed and use them at their liking;",
    "indent": 1
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   {
    "text": "But there is something when man’s eye appears",
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   {
    "text": "Wet, still more disagreeable and striking:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A woman’s tear-drop melts, a man’s half sears,",
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   {
    "text": "Like molten lead, as if you thrust a pike in",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "His heart to force it out, for (to be shorter)",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "To them ’tis a relief, to us a torture.",
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    "text": "And she would have consoled, but knew not how:",
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   {
    "text": "Having no equals, nothing which had e’er",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Infected her with sympathy till now,",
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   {
    "text": "And never having dreamt what ’twas to bear",
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   {
    "text": "Aught of a serious, sorrowing kind, although",
    "indent": 0
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   {
    "text": "There might arise some pouting petty care",
    "indent": 1
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   {
    "text": "To cross her brow, she wondered how so near",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Her eyes another’s eye could shed a tear.",
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   {
    "text": "But Nature teaches more than power can spoil,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And, when a strong although a strange sensation",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Moves⁠—female hearts are such a genial soil",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "For kinder feelings, whatso’er their nation,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "They naturally pour the “wine and oil,”",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Samaritans in every situation;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And thus Gulbeyaz, though she knew not why,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Felt an odd glistening moisture in her eye.",
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    "text": "But tears must stop like all things else; and soon",
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    "text": "Juan, who for an instant had been moved",
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    "text": "To such a sorrow by the intrusive tone",
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   {
    "text": "Of one who dared to ask if “he had loved,”",
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   {
    "text": "Called back the Stoic to his eyes, which shone",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Bright with the very weakness he reproved;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And although sensitive to beauty, he",
    "indent": 0
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   {
    "text": "Felt most indignant still at not being free.",
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    "text": "Gulbeyaz, for the first time in her days,",
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   {
    "text": "Was much embarrassed, never having met",
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   {
    "text": "In all her life with aught save prayers and praise;",
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   {
    "text": "And as she also risked her life to get",
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   {
    "text": "Him whom she meant to tutor in love’s ways",
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   {
    "text": "Into a comfortable tête-à-tête,",
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   {
    "text": "To lose the hour would make her quite a martyr,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And they had wasted now almost a quarter.",
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  ],
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    "text": "I also would suggest the fitting time",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To gentlemen in any such like case,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That is to say in a meridian clime⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With us there is more law given to the chase,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But here a small delay forms a great crime:",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "So recollect that the extremest grace",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Is just two minutes for your declaration⁠—",
    "indent": 0
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   {
    "text": "A moment more would hurt your reputation.",
    "indent": 0
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    "text": "Juan’s was good; and might have been still better,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But he had got Haidée into his head:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "However strange, he could not yet forget her,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Which made him seem exceedingly ill-bred.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Gulbeyaz, who looked on him as her debtor",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For having had him to her palace led,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Began to blush up to the eyes, and then",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Grow deadly pale, and then blush back again.",
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   {
    "text": "At length, in an imperial way, she laid",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Her hand on his, and bending on him eyes",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Which needed not an empire to persuade,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Looked into his for love, where none replies:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Her brow grew black, but she would not upbraid,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That being the last thing a proud woman tries;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "She rose, and pausing one chaste moment threw",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Herself upon his breast, and there she grew.",
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   {
    "text": "This was an awkward test, as Juan found,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But he was steeled by Sorrow, Wrath, and Pride:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "With gentle force her white arms he unwound,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And seated her all drooping by his side,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Then rising haughtily he glanced around,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And looking coldly in her face he cried,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "“The prisoned eagle will not pair, nor I",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Serve a Sultana’s sensual fantasy.",
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  ],
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    "text": "“Thou ask’st, if I can love? be this the proof",
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   },
   {
    "text": "How much I have loved⁠—that I love not thee!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In this vile garb, the distaff, web, and woof,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Were fitter for me: Love is for the free!",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "I am not dazzled by this splendid roof;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Whate’er thy power, and great it seems to be,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Heads bow, knees bend, eyes watch around a throne,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And hands obey⁠—our hearts are still our own.”",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "This was a truth to us extremely trite;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Not so to her, who ne’er had heard such things:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "She deemed her least command must yield delight,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Earth being only made for Queens and Kings.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "If hearts lay on the left side or the right",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "She hardly knew, to such perfection brings",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Legitimacy its born votaries, when",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Aware of their due royal rights o’er men.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "Besides, as has been said, she was so fair",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As even in a much humbler lot had made",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "A kingdom or confusion anywhere,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And also, as may be presumed, she laid",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Some stress on charms, which seldom are, if e’er,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "By their possessors thrown into the shade:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "She thought hers gave a double “right divine;”",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And half of that opinion’s also mine.",
    "indent": 0
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Remember, or (if you can not) imagine,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ye! who have kept your chastity when young,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "While some more desperate dowager has been waging",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Love with you, and been in the dog-days stung",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "By your refusal, recollect her raging!",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Or recollect all that was said or sung",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "On such a subject; then suppose the face",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Of a young downright beauty in this case!",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "Suppose⁠—but you already have supposed,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The spouse of Potiphar, the Lady Booby,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Phaedra, and all which story has disclosed",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Of good examples; pity that so few by",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Poets and private tutors are exposed,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "To educate⁠—ye youth of Europe⁠—you by!",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "But when you have supposed the few we know,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "You can’t suppose Gulbeyaz’ angry brow.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "A tigress robbed of young, a lioness,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or any interesting beast of prey,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Are similes at hand for the distress",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of ladies who can not have their own way;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "But though my turn will not be served with less,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "These don’t express one half what I should say:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "For what is stealing young ones, few or many,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "To cutting short their hope of having any?",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "The love of offspring’s Nature’s general law,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From tigresses and cubs to ducks and ducklings;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "There’s nothing whets the beak, or arms the claw",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Like an invasion of their babes and sucklings;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And all who have seen a human nursery, saw",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "How mothers love their children’s squalls and chucklings:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "This strong extreme effect (to tire no longer",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Your patience) shows the cause must still be stronger.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "If I said fire flashed from Gulbeyaz’ eyes,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "’Twere nothing⁠—for her eyes flashed always fire;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Or said her cheeks assumed the deepest dyes,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "I should but bring disgrace upon the dyer,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So supernatural was her passion’s rise;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "For ne’er till now she knew a checked desire:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Even ye who know what a checked woman is",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "(Enough, God knows!) would much fall short of this.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Her rage was but a minute’s, and ’twas well⁠—",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "A moment’s more had slain her; but the while",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "It lasted ’twas like a short glimpse of Hell:",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Nought’s more sublime than energetic bile,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Though horrible to see, yet grand to tell,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Like Ocean warring ’gainst a rocky isle;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And the deep passions flashing through her form",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Made her a beautiful embodied storm.",
    "indent": 0
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  ],
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    "text": "A vulgar tempest ’twere to a typhoon",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "To match a common fury with her rage,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And yet she did not want to reach the moon,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Like moderate Hotspur on the immortal page;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Her anger pitched into a lower tune,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Perhaps the fault of her soft sex and age⁠—",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Her wish was but to “kill, kill, kill,” like Lear’s,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And then her thirst of blood was quenched in tears.",
    "indent": 0
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "A storm it raged, and like the storm it passed,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Passed without words⁠—in fact she could not speak;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And then her sex’s shame broke in at last,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A sentiment till then in her but weak,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "But now it flowed in natural and fast,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "As water through an unexpected leak;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "For she felt humbled⁠—and humiliation",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Is sometimes good for people in her station.",
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   {
    "text": "It teaches them that they are flesh and blood,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "It also gently hints to them that others,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Although of clay, are yet not quite of mud;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That urns and pipkins are but fragile brothers,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And works of the same pottery, bad or good,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Though not all born of the same sires and mothers;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "It teaches⁠—Heaven knows only what it teaches,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "But sometimes it may mend, and often reaches.",
    "indent": 0
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    "text": "Her first thought was to cut off Juan’s head;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Her second, to cut only his⁠—acquaintance;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Her third, to ask him where he had been bred;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Her fourth, to rally him into repentance;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Her fifth, to call her maids and go to bed;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Her sixth, to stab herself; her seventh, to sentence",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The lash to Baba:⁠—but her grand resource",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Was to sit down again, and cry⁠—of course.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "She thought to stab herself, but then she had",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The dagger close at hand, which made it awkward;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "For Eastern stays are little made to pad,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So that a poniard pierces if ’tis struck hard:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "She thought of killing Juan⁠—but, poor lad!",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Though he deserved it well for being so backward,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The cutting off his head was not the art",
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   {
    "text": "Most likely to attain her aim⁠—his heart.",
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    "text": "Juan was moved: he had made up his mind",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To be impaled, or quartered as a dish",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For dogs, or to be slain with pangs refined,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Or thrown to lions, or made baits for fish,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And thus heroically stood resigned,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Rather than sin⁠—except to his own wish:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "But all his great preparatives for dying",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Dissolved like snow before a woman crying.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "As through his palms Bob Acres’ valour oozed,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So Juan’s virtue ebbed, I know not how;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And first he wondered why he had refused;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And then, if matters could be made up now;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And next his savage virtue he accused,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Just as a friar may accuse his vow,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or as a dame repents her of her oath,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Which mostly ends in some small breach of both.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "So he began to stammer some excuses;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "But words are not enough in such a matter,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Although you borrowed all that e’er the Muses",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Have sung, or even a Dandy’s dandiest chatter,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Or all the figures Castlereagh abuses;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Just as a languid smile began to flatter",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "His peace was making, but, before he ventured",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Further, old Baba rather briskly entered.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“Bride of the Sun! and Sister of the Moon!”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "(’Twas thus he spake,) “and Empress of the Earth!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whose frown would put the spheres all out of tune,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Whose smile makes all the planets dance with mirth,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Your slave brings tidings⁠—he hopes not too soon⁠—",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Which your sublime attention may be worth:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The Sun himself has sent me like a ray,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "To hint that he is coming up this way.”",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "“Is it,” exclaimed Gulbeyaz, “as you say?",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "I wish to heaven he would not shine till morning!",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "But bid my women form the milky way.",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Hence, my old comet! give the stars due warning⁠—",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And, Christian! mingle with them as you may,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And as you’d have me pardon your past scorning⁠—”",
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   {
    "text": "Here they were interrupted by a humming",
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   {
    "text": "Sound, and then by a cry, “The Sultan’s coming!”",
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    "text": "First came her damsels, a decorous file,",
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   {
    "text": "And then his Highness’ eunuchs, black and white;",
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   {
    "text": "The train might reach a quarter of a mile:",
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   {
    "text": "His Majesty was always so polite",
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   {
    "text": "As to announce his visits a long while",
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   {
    "text": "Before he came, especially at night;",
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   {
    "text": "For being the last wife of the Emperor,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "She was of course the favourite of the four.",
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   {
    "text": "His Highness was a man of solemn port,",
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   {
    "text": "Shawled to the nose, and bearded to the eyes,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Snatched from a prison to preside at court,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "His lately bowstrung brother caused his rise;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He was as good a sovereign of the sort",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As any mentioned in the histories",
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    "text": "Of Cantemir, or Knōllěs, where few shine",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Save Solyman, the glory of their line.",
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   {
    "text": "He went to mosque in state, and said his prayers",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With more than “Oriental scrupulosity;”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He left to his vizier all state affairs,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And showed but little royal curiosity:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I know not if he had domestic cares⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "No process proved connubial animosity;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Four wives and twice five hundred maids, unseen,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Were ruled as calmly as a Christian queen.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "If now and then there happened a slight slip,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Little was heard of criminal or crime;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The story scarcely passed a single lip⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The sack and sea had settled all in time,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From which the secret nobody could rip:",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The public knew no more than does this rhyme;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "No scandals made the daily press a curse⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Morals were better, and the fish no worse.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "He saw with his own eyes the moon was round,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Was also certain that the earth was square,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Because he had journeyed fifty miles, and found",
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   },
   {
    "text": "No sign that it was circular anywhere;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "His empire also was without a bound:",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "’Tis true, a little troubled here and there,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "By rebel pachas, and encroaching giaours,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "But then they never came to “the Seven Towers;”",
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   {
    "text": "Except in shape of envoys, who were sent",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "To lodge there when a war broke out, according",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To the true law of nations, which ne’er meant",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Those scoundrels, who have never had a sword in",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Their dirty diplomatic hands, to vent",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Their spleen in making strife, and safely wording",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Their lies, yclept despatches, without risk or",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The singeing of a single inky whisker.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "He had fifty daughters and four dozen sons,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of whom all such as came of age were stowed,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The former in a palace, where like nuns",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "They lived till some Bashaw was sent abroad,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When she, whose turn it was, was wed at once,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sometimes at six years old⁠—though this seems odd,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "’Tis true; the reason is, that the Bashaw",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Must make a present to his sire-in-law.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "His sons were kept in prison, till they grew",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of years to fill a bowstring or the throne,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "One or the other, but which of the two",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Could yet be known unto the fates alone;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Meantime the education they went through",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Was princely, as the proofs have always shown;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So that the heir apparent still was found",
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   },
   {
    "text": "No less deserving to be hanged than crowned.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "His Majesty saluted his fourth spouse",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With all the ceremonies of his rank,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Who cleared her sparkling eyes and smoothed her brows,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "As suits a matron who has played a prank;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "These must seem doubly mindful of their vows,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "To save the credit of their breaking bank:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To no men are such cordial greetings given",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "As those whose wives have made them fit for Heaven.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "His Highness cast around his great black eyes,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And looking, as he always looked, perceived",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Juan amongst the damsels in disguise,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "At which he seemed no whit surprised nor grieved,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "But just remarked with air sedate and wise,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "While still a fluttering sigh Gulbeyaz heaved,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "“I see you’ve bought another girl; ’tis pity",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "That a mere Christian should be half so pretty.”",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "This compliment, which drew all eyes upon",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The new-bought virgin, made her blush and shake.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Her comrades, also, thought themselves undone:",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Oh! Muhammad! that his Majesty should take",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Such notice of a giaour, while scarce to one",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Of them his lips imperial ever spake!",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "There was a general whisper, toss, and wriggle,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "But etiquette forbade them all to giggle.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "The Turks do well to shut⁠—at least, sometimes⁠—",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The women up⁠—because, in sad reality,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Their chastity in these unhappy climes",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Is not a thing of that astringent quality",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Which in the North prevents precocious crimes,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And makes our snow less pure than our morality;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The Sun, which yearly melts the polar ice,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Has quite the contrary effect⁠—on vice.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Thus in the East they are extremely strict,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And wedlock and a padlock mean the same:",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Excepting only when the former’s picked",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "It ne’er can be replaced in proper frame;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Spoilt, as a pipe of claret is when pricked:",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "But then their own polygamy’s to blame;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Why don’t they knead two virtuous souls for life",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Into that moral centaur, man and wife?",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Thus far our chronicle; and now we pause,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Though not for want of matter; but ’tis time,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "According to the ancient epic laws,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "To slacken sail, and anchor with our rhyme.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Let this fifth canto meet with due applause,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The sixth shall have a touch of the sublime;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Meanwhile, as Homer sometimes sleeps, perhaps",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "You’ll pardon to my muse a few short naps.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ]
 ]
}