NOTES TO THE DEFORMED TRANSFORMED.

Note 1, page 65, line 19.

Bestrides the Hartz mountain, etc.

This is a well-known German superstition—a gigantic shadow produced by reflection on the Brocken.

Note 2, page 76, line 1.

From the red earth, like Adam, etc.

Adam means red earth, from which the first man was formed.

Note 3, page 104, line 16.

Weep not-strike! for Rome is mourning!

Scipio, the second Africanus, is said to have repeated a verse of Homer and wept o'er the burning of Carthage. He had better have granted it a capitulation.

THE

BRIDE OF ABYDOS.

A TURKISH TALE.

"Had we never loved so kindly,
Had we never loved so blindly,

Never met or never parted,

We had ne'er been broken-hearted.»

BURNS.

ΤΟ

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LORD HOLLAND,

THIS TALE

IS INSCRIBED, WITH

EVERY SENTIMENT OF REGARD

AND RESPECT,

BY HIS GRATEFULLY OBLIGED

AND SINCERE FRIEND,

BYRON.