“Jack was embarrassed — never hero more,
And as he knew not what to say, he swore.”

— George Gordon Byron

The Island (1823), Canto III, Stanza 5.

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English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement 1788–1824

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“Jack was embarrassed — never hero more,
And as he knew not what to say, he swore.”