Delivers in such apt and gracious words

That aged ears play truant at his tales,

And younger hearings are quite ravished;

So sweet and voluble is his discourse.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Love's Labour's Lost. Act ii. Sc. 1.

And truant husband should return, and say,

"My dear, I was the first who came away."

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Don Juan. Canto i. Stanza 141.