But facts are facts: no knight could be more true,
And firme faith no ladye—love desire;
We will omit the proofs, save one or two:
'T is said no one in hand 'can hold a fir
By thought of frosty Caucasus;' but few,
I really think; yet Juan's then ordeal
Was more triumphant, and not much less real.
Here I might enter on a chaste description,
Having withstood temptation in my youth,