rum forbid complaint in _public_.

[he] {206} _The Koran-chapter chaunts thy fate_.--[MS.]

[187] [At a Turkish funeral, after the interment has taken place, the
Imam "assis sur les genoux a cote de la tombe," offers the prayer
_Telkin_, and at the conclusion of the prayer recites the _Fathah_, or
"opening chapter" of the Koran. ("In the name of the merciful and
compassionate God. Praise belongs to God, the Lord of the worlds, the
Merciful, the Compassionate, the Ruler of the day of judgment. Thee we
serve, and Thee we ask for aid. Guide us in the right path, the path of
those Thou art gracious to; not of those Thou art wroth with; nor of
those who err."--_The Qur'an_, p. 1, translated by E. H. Palmer, Oxford,
1880): _Tableau Generale de l'Empire Ottoman_, par Mouradja D'Ohsson,
Paris, 1787, i. 235-248. Writing to Murray, November 14, 1813, Byron
instances the funeral (in the _Bride of Abydos_) as proof of his
correctness with regard to local colouring.--_Letters_, 1898, ii. 283.]

[188] {207} ["I one evening witnessed a funeral in the vast cemetery of
Scutari. An old man, with a venerable beard, threw himself by the side
of the narrow grave, and strewing the earth on his head, cried aloud,
'He was my son! my only son!'"--_Constantinople in 1828_, by Charles
Macfarlane, 1829, p. 233, note.]

[hf] _She whom thy Sultan had been fain to wed_.--[MS.]

[189] ["The body of a Moslemin is ordered to be carried to the grave in
haste, with hurried steps."--_Ibid._, p. 233, note.]

[190] "I came to the place of my birth, and cried, 'The friends of my
Youth, where are they?' and an Echo answered, 'Where are they?'"--_From
an Arabic MS._ The above quotation (from which the idea in the text is
taken) must be already familiar to every reader: it is given in the
second annotation, p. 67, of _The Pleasures of Memory_ [note to Part I.
line 103]; a poem so well known as to render a reference almost
superfluous: but to whose pages all will be delighted to recur [_Poems_,
by Samuel Rogers, 1852, i. 48].

[hg] _There the sad cypress ever glooms_.--[MS.]

[hh] {209} _But with the day blush of the sky_.--[MS.]

[hi] _And some there be who could believe_.--[MS.]

[191]
"And airy tongues that _syllable_ men's names."
Milton, _Comus_, line 208.

For a belief that the souls of the dead inhabit the form of birds, we
need not travel to the East. Lord Lyttleton's ghost story, the belief