LOVE.

BY THE AUTHORESS OF

"FLIRTATION," "THE DIVORCED," &c.

Bury, Lady Charlotte Maria Susan

What 'tis to love:

Oh Love! what is it in this world of ours

Which makes it fatal to be loved! Ah! why

With cypress branches hast thou wreathed thy bowers,

And made thy best interpreter a sigh?

BYRON.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER,

GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.

WHITING, BEAUFORT HOUSE, STRAND.

That wealth and title sue to me,
Glads me, I own, since 'tis for thee
Such glorious glittering baubles I resign;
Or should a smile my cheek adorn,

Oh! trust me I but smile in scorn

To think their merits should contend with thine.

THE LATE M. G. LEWIS, ESQ.

MISS ELTON was the beauty of her day; not merely a pretty girl in right of youth and freshness, but a decided beauty. One might have said of many of her contemporaries, they are charming, but Miss Elton was faultlessly handsome: the Prince said so, the Duke of — avowed it, Lord D. declared it, and so did the