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The Lady Adeline's serene severityWas not confined to feeling for her friend ,Whose fame she rather doubted with posterity,Unless her habits should begin to mend;

But Juan also shared in her austerity,

But mix'd with pity, pure as e'er was penn'd :His inexperience moved her gentle ruth,

And (as her junior by six weeks) his youth.

LII.

These forty days advantage of her years —

And hers were those which can face calcu-lation ,

Boldly referring to the list of peers

And noble births, nor dread the enumera-tion —

Cave her a right to have maternal fearsFor a young gentleman's fit education,