In Herd's collection of " Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs,” this ballad may be found, published

there without note or commer Whatever poetical me it may have, is very meagre in its de. taiļs. It does not even allude to the mode in which the Lady Frennet cruelly and inhospitably put her young guest to death, although the Scottish historians, and some ballad makers after them, have detailed the circum tances, as they occured in 1630. She lodged them in a tower, and having secured the doors and windows, set fire to it, and burned them. Some versions describe this fearful catastrophe with a minuteness terribly graphic.

Da. Peroy, from the fourth edition of whose " Reliques" this interesting ballad is quoted, styles it an

“Old Romantic Legend." Nothing is known of its original authorship.