PLAGIARISMS, OR PARALLEL PASSAGES. No. 2

[Continued from No. 11. p. 163.] "Dans les premières passions les femmes aiment l'amant; dans les autres elles aiment l'amour."—La Rouchefoucauld, Max. 494. "In her first passions woman loves her lover, In all the others all she loves is love, Which grows a habit she can ne'er get over, And fits her loosely—like an easy glove," etc. Don Juan, canto iii. st. iii. There is no note on this passage; but on the concluding lines of the very next stanza, "Although, no doubt, her first of love affairs Is that to which her heart is wholly granted; Yet there are some, they say, who have had none, But th…