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I / Oh ye! who teach the ingenuous youth of nations, / Holland, France, England, Germany, or Spain, / I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, / It mends their morals, never mind the pain: / The best of mothers and of educations / In Juan's case were but employ'd in vain, / Since, in a way that's rather of the oddest, he / Became divested of his native modesty.
II / Had he but been placed at a public school, / In the third form, or even in the fourth, / His daily task had kept his fancy cool, / At least, had he been nurtured in the north; / Spain may prove an exception to the rule, / But then exceptions always prove its worth- / A lad of sixteen causing a divorce / Puzzled his tutors very much, of course.