however, between the armies of James and Surrey, is certain. See Pinkterton's History, and the authorities he refers to, vol. ii. p. 99. Heron of Ford had been, in 1511, in some sort accessory to the slaughter of Sir Robert Kerr of Cessford, Warden of the Middle Marches. It was committed by his brother the bastard, Lilburn, and Starked, three Borderers. Lilburn and Heron of Ford were delivered up by Henry to James, and were imprisoned in the fortress of Fast castle, where the former died. Part of the pretence of Lady Ford's negotiations with James was the liberty of her husband.'—Scott.
l. 271. love = beloved. Cp.Burns's 'O my love is like a red red rose.'
l. 273. ' "Also the Queen of France wrote a love-letter to the King of Scotland, calling him her love, showing him that she had suffered much rebuke in France for the defending of his honour. She believed surely that he would recompense her again with some of his kingly support in her necessity; that is to say, that he would raise her an army, and come three foot of ground on English ground, for her sake. To that effect she sent him a ring off her finger, with fourteen thousand French crowns to pay his expenses." Pitscottie p. 110. —A turquois ring— probably this fatal gift—is, with James's sword and dagger, preserved in the College of Heralds, London.'—Scott.
ll. 287–8. The change of movement introduced by this couplet has the intended effect of arresting the attention and lending pathos to the description and sentiment.
Stanza XI. l. 302. The wimple was a covering for the neck, said to have been introduced in the reign of Edward I. See Chaucer's 'Prologue,' 151:
'Ful semely hire wympel i-pynched was.'
l. 307.Cp. 2 Henry IV, iii. 2. 9, 'By yea and nay, sir.'
l. 308. Cp. refrain of song, ' 'Twas within a mile o' Edinburgh Town,' in Johnson's Museum:—
'The lassie blush'd, and frowning cried, "No, no, it will not do;
I cannot, cannot, wonnot, wonnot, mannot buckle too."
Stanza XII. The skilful application of the anapaest for the production of the brilliant gallop of 'Lochinvar' has been equalled only by Scott himself in his 'Bonnets o' Bonnie Dandee.' Cp. Lord Tennyson's 'Northern Farmer' (specially New Style), and Mr. Browning's 'How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix.' 'The ballad of Lochinvar,' says Scott, 'is in a very slight degree founded on a ballad called "Katharine Janfarie," which may
