![]() ![]() ![]() At this point Byron stops to devote a few amusing stanzas to the young "fortune" who has just made her debut and the stir made about her by other females who wish to arrange a match for her with one of their relatives. The dowagers in Juan's set have decided that her education had better be taken out of Juan's management and put into that of one of themselves. ![]() In Stanza 23, he turns to Juan, at least by name, but it is Juan's ward Leila he takes up. This meditation is followed by a boast about his youthful success as a writer and literary lion, of which he has lately paid the penalty, a comment on the passing nature of fame, and a tongue-in-cheek plea for procreation, which the Malthusians are currently opposed to. Money rules the world and even rules love. Canto XII begins with a fourteen-stanza meditation on the misery of middle age (Byron is now thirty-five, he tells the reader in Stanza 2) and the pleasures of money, which Byron ironically sings the praises of. ![]()
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