1 ‘Away with you, away with you, James de Grant! And, Douglas, ye’ll be slain; For Baddindalloch’s at your gates, With many brave Highland men.’ 2 ‘Baddindalloch has no feud at me, And I have none at him; Cast up my gates baith broad and wide, Let Baddindalloch in.’ 3 ‘James de Grant has made a vaunt, And leaped the castle-wa; But, if he comes this way again, He’ll no win sae well awa. 4 ‘Take him, take him, brave Gordons, O take him, fine fellows a’! If he wins but ae mile to the Highland hills, He’ll defy you Gordons a’.’ * * * * * _As printed by Buchan:_ 1^3, 2^{1,4}. Balnadallach. 1^4. man. 2^4 come in. 3^4. nae won. 4^3. on the Highland hill. 198 BONNY JOHN SETON #A.# ‘Bonny John Seton,’ Maidment’s North Countrie Garland, p. 15; Buchan’s Gleanings, p. 161; Maidment’s Scotish Ballads and Songs, Historical and Traditionary, I, 280. #B.# ‘The Death of John Seton,’ Buchan’s Ballads of the North of Scotland, II, 136. Buchan had another copy, sent him in manuscript by a young lady in Aberdeen, in which the Earl Marischal was made prominent: Ballads, II, 321. Aytoun, I, 139, had a copy which had been annotated by C. K. Sharpe, and from this he seems to have derived a few variations. The New Deeside Guide [1832], p. 5 (nominally by James Brown, but written by Dr Joseph Robertson), gives #A#, with a few trifling improvements which seem to be editorial.