Is there a way to read XML from a string with lxml, without converting escaped characters (' for ', " for ", etc) back to their original form?

For example,

from lxml import etree

def test_etree_parse():
    test_str = "Text's escaped"
    xml = etree.XML(f"<root>{test_str}</root>")
    assert xml.find(".").text == test_str

This fails because etree.XML converts "Text's escaped" to "Text's escaped".