XJF332171 Fare Thee Well, c.1816 (engraving) by Cruikshank, George (1792-1878); Private Collection; (add.info.: George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824) was a British poet and a leading figure in Romanticism; "Fare thee well! thus disunited, Torn from every nearer tie. Seared in heart, and lone, and blighted, More than this I scarce can die." after his marriage to Anne Milbanke failed because of a scandal due to charges of sexual improprieties and an incestuous affair between Byron and his half-sister, Augusta Leigh, attacked by the press and ostracised by London society, Byron fled England for Switzerland in 1816 and never returned. Cruikshank\'s satirising his poem by showing Byron who "escapes" England with three women. Hardly "lone".); English, out of copyright.