Confessions of a Liberal Puritan

Its sort of wrong that he messed with Byron, and yet weirdly sweet and funny too

"Weirdly sweet and funny" is a good description for so much of Jayne's personality.

And, anyway, in my imagination Jayne would rather steal from rich people rather than poor people (if the jobs are of equal danger and difficulty and the poor people haven't done anything to piss him off, of course -- I mean, he's not bucking for sainthood, right?), so if he's going to steal the words of anyone else in order to court River, you know he'd prefer to steal from 'the best' . . . and especially if that 'best' has a fancy-assed, Core-sounding title in front of his name and wrote a poem so close to expressing Jayne's sentiments that it just begged to be stolen.

Or maybe that's just my rationalization, because I couldn't resist the chance to mess with Byron a little bit and let poor Jayne take the blame . . . ?

Nah, . . . it's definitely all Jayne's fault. Yep. All him.