Note 81 — DON JUAN CANTO THE FIRST.[14]
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[For the incident of the shoes, Lord Byron was probably indebted to the Scottish ballad—
"Our goodman came hame at e'en, and hame came he; He spy'd a pair of jack-boots, where nae boots should be, What's this now, goodwife? What's this I see? How came these boots there, without the leave o' me! Boots! quo' she: Ay, boots, quo' he. Shame fa' your cuckold face, and ill mat ye see, It's but a pair of water stoups the cooper sent to me," etc.
See James Johnson's Musical Museum, 1787, etc., v. 466.]