Produced by Jonathan Ingram, David Cortesi, and the Online Distributed Proofreaders Team at https://www.pgdp.net TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES This etext contains characters from the Latin-1 set plus the following symbols from Unicode: the Greek alphabet and the letters ā, ī, and ē (a, i, and e with macron). It contains lines and phrases in Greek, which are given as the Greek letters followed by a bracketed transliteration in Beta-code, for example Λιακυρα [Liakyra]. A few instances of superscript letters are indicated by carets, as in "Concluded, Canto 2^d, Smyrna, March 28^th^." An important feature of this edition is its copious notes, which are of three types. Notes indexed with a number and a letter, for example [4.B.], are end-notes provided by Byron or, following Canto IV, by J. C. Hobhouse. These notes follow each Canto. Poems and end-notes have footnotes. Footnotes indexed with lowercase letters (e.g. [c], [bf]) show variant forms of Byron's text from manuscripts and other sources. Footnotes indexed with arabic numbers (e.g. [17], [221]) are informational. In the original, footnotes are printed at the foot of the page on which they are referenced, and their indices start over on each page. In this etext, footnotes have been collected at the end of each section, and have been numbered consecutively throughout the book. Within each block of footnotes are numbers in braces, e.g. {321}. These represent the page number on which the following notes originally appeared. To find a note that was originally printed on page 27, search for {27}. Text in footnotes and end-notes in square brackets is the work of Editor E. H. Coleridge. Note text not in brackets is by Byron or Hobhouse. In certain notes on variant text, the editor showed deleted text struck through with lines. The struck-through words are noted here with braces and dashes, as in {-deleted words-}. The Works OF LORD BYRON. A NEW, REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS. Poetry. Vol. II. EDITED BY ERNEST HARTLEY COLERIDGE, M.A. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS. 1899. PREFACE TO THE SECOND VOLUME.