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by Garcilaso de la Vega (1503–1536)
"Why, what calumnious charge is this That you against him would advance? All that the good knight did amiss Was, that he ever joined the dance."
Count they then this a great offence? I do not think it such; his sin Is quite excused by the defence That 'twas the woman drew him in. She, she it was that caused his fall More, much more than the having set His mind upon surpassing all In the fantastic pirouette.