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Canio I.

don juau.

ii

MIL

In Seville ivas lie born, a pleasant city,

Famous for 01-augcs and women lieWlio lias not seen it will be much to pity.

So says llic proverb anil I quite agree;

Of all the Spanish towns is none more pretty,Cadiz perhaps but that you soon may see:"Don Juans parents lived beside the river,

A noble stream, and calld the Guadalquivir .

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llis fathers name was Jose Don , of course,

A true Hidalgo, free from overy stain ,

Of Moor or Hebrew blood, he traced his sourceThrough the most Gothic gentlemen of Spain ;A better cavalier neer mounted horse,

Or, being mounted, eer got down again,

Than J 6 se, who begot our hero, whoBegot hut thats to come--Well, to renew