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" "Pra mim, o que passou está passado, (For me, I leave the matter where I find it,)
Pois sei que essa virtude repressiva (Knowing that such uneasy virtue leads)
não afasta as pessoas do pecado, (People some ten times less in fact to mind it)
Só as deixa mais dúplices, fingidas. (And care but for discoveries an not deeds.)
A lei dos mais zelosos advogados (Anda as for chastity, you'll never bind it)
Não torna a castidade mais estrita (By all the laws the strictest lawyer pleads,)
E em vez de prevenir, agrava o erro, (But aggravate the crime you have not prevented,)
Pois leva o penitente ao desespero. (By rendering desperate those who had else repented.)
George Gordon (Noel) Byron, 6th Baron Byron (January 22 1788 – April 19 1824), generally known as Lord Byron, was an English poet and leading figure in Romanticism. He was the father of the mathematician Ada Lovelace.
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