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4 relation to Turkey. Lord Byron emphatically called the Greeks, "A kind of Eastern Irish Papists," thereby intending to convey in the strongest possible manner to an European mind, the idea of Turkish despotism and Grecian slavery. The bards of these devoted nations have nearly in the same manner embodied in their songs the feelings of the conquered