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Some moral advice to a modern captain
Don Juan is a captain now: / but my mind would much prefer / for him to be more reformed / and a little less the captain.
For truly it perturbs me, / in so venturesome an action, / to see him not govern the bridle, / and dare to use the short stirrup.
5 The pun is based on the dual meanings of reformado: "cashiered," in the military sense, and "reformed," in the moral sense.