hee.'

71.
'Fair Philiphaugh, prince, is my ain,
I biggit it wi' lime and stane;
The Tinnies and the Hangingshaw,
My liege, are native steads of mine.

72.
' ... ... ...
... ... ...
I have mony steads in the forest shaw,
But them by name I dinna knaw.'

73.
The keys of the castle he gave the king,
With the blessing of his fair ladye;
He was made sheriff of Ettrick Forest,
Surely while upward grows the tree;
And if he was not traitour to the king,
Forfaulted he suld never be.

74.
Wha ever heard, in ony times,
Siccan an outlaw in his degree
Sic favour get before a king
As did the Outlaw Murray of the forest free?

[Annotations:
2.1: 'biggit,' built.
5.4: 'courtrie,' courtiers.
8.1: 'redd,' advise.
14.4: 'frith,' wood.
16.4: 'whidderand,' whizzing.
22.3: 'Soudron,' Southron, _i.e._ southern, English.
26.4: 'rad,' afraid.
34.1: 'Gar ray,' cause to be arrayed, _i.e._ saddled.
34.3: 'graith,' equip, prepare.
41.2: 'mae,' more.
49.1: A ford on the Tweed, at the mouth of the Caddon Burn,
near Yair.
64.1: 'Siccan,' such.
71.4: 'steads,' dwelling-places. Cp. farm-stead, home-stead.]

SIR ANDREW BARTON

+The Text+ is taken from the Percy Folio MS., but the spelling is
modernised. There is another version, extant in broadsides to be found
in nearly all the large collections; this, when set beside the Folio MS.
text, provides a remarkable instance of the loss a ballad sustained by
falling into the hands of the broadside-printers. The present text,
despite the unlucky hiatus after st. 35, is a splendid example of an
English ballad, which cannot be earlier than the sixteenth century.
There is a fine rhythm throughout, and, as Child says, 'not many better
passages are met with in ballad poetry than that which tells of the
three gallant attempts on the mainmast tree (stt. 52-66).'

+The Story+ told in the ballad is a piece of history, and belongs
originally to the beginning of the sixteenth century. Andrew Barton was
one of three sons of John Barton, a Scots trader whose ship had been
plundered by the Portuguese in 1476; letters of reprisal were granted to
the brothers Barton, and renewed to them in 1506 'as no opportunity had
occurred of effectuating a retaliation.' It seems, however, that this
privilege was abused, at least by Andrew, who was reported in June 1511
t