Nine adulteries, 12 liaisons, 64 fornications and <br />something approaching a rape <br />Rest nightly upon the soul of our delicate friend <br />Florialis, <br />And yet the man is so quiet and reserved in demeanour <br />That he passes for both bloodless and sexless. <br />Bastidides, on the contrary, who both talks and writes <br />of nothing save copulation, <br />Has become the father of twins, <br />But he accomplished this feat at some cost; <br />He had to be four times cuckold.<br /><br />Ezra Pound<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-temperaments/
