But Juan was a hero, or at least,
Felt like a hero 'neath her grace's look,
I will not say he made himself a beast,
Such as Sterne tells us he did, in his book,
When near Maria (true Sterne was a priest.
And as a priest some strange vagaries took).
But this I know that Juan then did feel.
If not a beast-like, yet a priest-like zeal.