diff --git a/requests_html.py b/requests_html.py
index 0c3a989..4c8a59f 100644
--- a/requests_html.py
+++ b/requests_html.py
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ class BaseParser:
of the :class:`Element ` or :class:`HTML `.
"""
if self._pq is None:
- self._pq = PyQuery(self.html)
+ self._pq = PyQuery(self.lxml)
return self._pq