THE

AVENGED BRIDE;

A

TALE OF THE GLENS.

IN FOUR CANTOS.

WITH

NOTES, HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE OF THE NORTHERN

COAST OF THE COUNTY OF ANTRIM.

BY

ALEXANDER MARKHAM, Esq.

“ Did'st thou but know what damned injuries,

What foul, unknightly shame and obloquy,
His sire-whose name is wormwood to my mouth-
Did heap upon our house. Did'st thou but know-
No matter--life is revenge! revenge is life!
And though we never meet again, when thou
Shalt hear of the most fearful deed of daring,
Of the most horrible and bloody tale
That ever graced a beldame's midnight legend,
Or froze her gaping listeners, think of me
And my revenge!"

Miss Fanny Kemble's Tragedy oj Francis the First.

BELFAST:

JOHN HODGSON; AND R. MILLIKEN & SON, DUBLIN..

MDCCCXXXIII,

TO

MAJOR-GENERAL

THE HONOURABLE JOHN BRUCE RICHARD O'NEILL,

THE FOLLOWING

Poem

IS INSCRIBED BY ONE WHO HAS LONG ADMIRED HIS CHARACTER,

EXPERIENCED HIS KINDNESS,

AND

VALUED HIS FRIENDSHIP.