TO

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LORD HOLLAND,

THIS TALE

18 INSCRIBED, WITH

EVERY SENTIMENT OF REGARD,

AND RESPECT,

BY HIS GRATEFULLY OBLIGED

AND SINCERE FRIEND,

BYRON

THE

BRIDE OF A BYDOS,

A TURKISH TALE.

" Had we never loved so kindly,

Had we never lovod so blindly,
Nover mot or nover parted,
Wo had no'er boon läroken-hoarlod."

Bundith