12^{1,2}. There Hamiltons and Douglas baith Shall rise to succour thee. 14^3. His life is but a three days’ lease. 15^1. was clear, _as in_ #A#. 196 THE FIRE OF FRENDRAUGHT #A. a.# ‘The Fire of Frendraught,’ Motherwell’s Minstrelsy, p. 161, 1827. #b.# ‘Burning of Frendraught,’ Maidment’s North Countrie Garland, p. 4, 1824. #B.# ‘The Burning of Frendraught,’ Kinloch MSS, V, 399. #C.# ‘The Fire of Frendraught,’ from a note-book of Dr Joseph Robertson’s. #D.# Ritson’s Scotish Songs, II, 35, 1794. #E.# Kinloch MSS, VI, 27, one stanza. #A a# was communicated to Motherwell by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe. (Corrections have here been adopted from Motherwell’s Errata: see also the Musical Museum, 1853, IV, 322*.) #A b#, says Motherwell, has the “disadvantage of containing a very considerable number of slight verbal and literal inaccuracies.” The implication is, or should be, that these variations are of editorial origin. Some of the readings of #b# are in themselves better than those of #a#. #b# is repeated in Buchan’s Gleanings, p. 165. The copy in Maidment’s Scotish Ballads, 1868, I, 267, is a with a reading or two from #b#, arbitrary alterations, and some misprints. Dr Joseph Robertson has, in one of his notebooks, “Adversaria,” p. 63, the two following stanzas, given him by a gentleman of Buchan as belonging to “The Burning of Frendraught House.” ‘Will ye play at the cards, Lord John? Will ye drink at the wine? Or will ye [gang] to a weel made bed, And sleep till it be time?’ ‘I’ll no play at the cards, ladie, I’ll no drink at the wine; But I’ll gang to a weel made bed, An sleep till it be time.’ Undoubtedly these stanzas may have occurred in a version of this ballad, but they are a commonplace, and sometimes an intrusive one. See II, 109, ‘Fair Janet,’ #F# 4, 5; 154, ‘Young Hunting,’ #K# 8, 9; 164, ‘Clerk Saunders,’ #F#, 5, 6; 409, ‘Willie o Douglas Dale,’ #B# 20. The modern, and extremely vapid, ballad of ‘Frennet Hall’ appeared originally (I suppose) in Herd’s Scottish Songs, 1776, I, 142, and was afterwards received into Ritson’s Scotish Songs, II, 31, The Musical Museum, No 286, etc.